Over the next several day, Marinez continued to hunt herbiboars RuneScape Gold, spending more than 36 hours on the job. "There are moments when I can't bear the sight of hunting game ... but when it's in exchange for money, I'm willing to accept it for a moment," he messaged me in Spanish after which he added "It's just my job. And from it, I'm living my life."

Marinez twenty year old "does performs services" to other gamers in Old School RuneScape, a massively multiplayer online online role-playing game. The players around the world pay him--usually through Bitcoin--to go on quests and level up the skills of their characters as miners fighters, or hunters.

In Venezuela the country where, in 2019, 96 percent of the population did not earn more than the poverty threshold at $1.90 per day, according to a survey conducted by a Venezuelan university, Marinez is doing better than the vast majority of.

Alongside his pocket change earned while working in a local pizzeria, Marinez earns around $60 a month with RuneScape enough to purchase cornmeal for arepas and rice for his son and sister runescape 2007 gold. However, for Marinez working on the internet isn't just about arepas. It's about escape. thinks the medieval fantasy game is boring.