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Recently, these task platforms really made me laugh. To earn a little, you have to fill out forms, do quizzes, check in daily, plus a set of "Witch Ratings" watching you like HR reviewing resumes... Basically, they outsource the trust cost to algorithms, and we consciously act as compliant employees. Occasionally browsing the wreckage of failed projects, I realize that the things everyone criticized back then—KYC, white lists—have come back in a different guise.
What's more subtle is that the more afraid of the witches, the more likely you are to become a "performance-type user": afraid to transfer assets randomly, afraid to hold multiple wallets, living on-chain more cautiously than in real life. Just like the NFT royalty debate, creators want stable income, the market wants liquidity, and in the end, the pressure is all on ordinary people: either pay taxes or stop playing.
Anyway, I have clear boundaries: I don't need to be understood, but I also don't want to be used as a data point to command my work. Do what I can, forget what I can't, and save some brainpower for real life.