（#SideHustle #Surveys #PointEarning #HourlyWage）"Point-Earning", Worth an Hourly Wage of 60 Yen ($0.37)? Questioning the Meaning of Labor Through Market Principles
"Earn pocket money in your spare time!" "Make a side income of tens of thousands of yen ('$300') or more every month with just a smartphone!" Open the internet, and the world of "Point Earning" (reward point sites) is filled with such enticing phrases. Requiring no special skills, "answering surveys" is something anyone can start today. You can easily jump in as your first step into a side hustle. Log in to a point site and freely answer surveys. When you log in to a point site, you will find enough surveys lined up to fill the screen. "Just by freely answering these, I can cash them out as I go and make an income. What an amazing system!" At first, everyone gets excited. Let's run a simulation under the very common condition that "answering one survey earns you 30pt." Since you get about 30pt per survey, you can turn that into income by cashing it out whenever you like. The work itse...