There's supposed to be a anti-Elon and anti-DOGE protest in DC this week, and it came out yesterday.....they could not get enough unpaid protesters to show....so they are paying them.
Going rate in DC? Forty dollars an hour. I assume....four to five hours a day....so you could collect $250 per day.
Who has the cash? Unknown. I watched one interview....journalist asking pay-scale, and the response. (Here)
Three days of pay? Yeah....by Friday....the guy will have cleared in the range of $750 to $1000. Reported to IRS? I doubt it.
Could you make this a profession? Well....you'd have to line up weekly protests. I guess you could clear $8k a year....if you were hooked up to five or six organizations.
The problem here...CBS, NPR, and CNN have film-footage from the protest, and act like the fifty-odd folks there are true-blue protest folks....when really....they were paid. News value? Well....I'd say zero.
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