Can you believe that companies would ask people to do things they normally wouldn't in exchange for money!?

These types of articles always have an elitist view of the workers hired. That's a big source of the right (in the US) despising the left. The left don't say it directly, but when they talk about how shitty their town is and how the job they have is exploitative, there's an implicit judgment on the persons who live/work there.