People spend lots of time and effort here and in other online forums posting for free. A few of the posters here have occasionally written pieces that could be journalistic articles with a little or maybe even no additional professional editing. If $600 a month is the maximum of what they're getting awarded, it's clearly just a hobby they enjoy doing and not something they're worried about getting paid for. Or perhaps they see it as a stepping stone to an actual sports journalism career.

Either way, if they aren't technically employees and they aren't complaining about their circumstances, why is the author of this article making a fuss? (clicks perhaps?) And sorry if my comments were addressed in the article as it was a definite TLDR.

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