[captainmuon]

I have to applaud anybody who can just take an arbitrary hour of their life and earn $31.25.

Most people I know earn about half of that (after taxes), and only during work hours. Outside of work hours, we get nothing. Sure, I could freelance or get a second job (which I neither want nor need), but there is no option with a one-hour granularity.

If I decide to build a Hackintosh, there is no other equivalent thing I could be doing that gives me $1000. It goes off my free time. I don't loose money, but I do loose free time in which I could be doing other nice things instead. Of course, maybe it's a fun experience, so it's not even a waste of time.