We're getting nowhere here. You're in the "i own your ass" mindset of capitalism. Thats not a base for discussion. They likely also ate and took a shit on time paid for by people. The whole idea of only paying for a specific task is so fucking dystopian.

Just take a second to imagine yourself in their shoes. Waking up, not taking a shower (slightly joking but who cares), either eating something or smoking some weed or both, sitting down in front of a computer, writing code, working on bugs, writing documentation, eating, going outside (hopefully), going to sleep.

As someone who does this shit for a living, you cant clearly divide tasks in non manual jobs and even then it is micromanagement which will likely make a lot of workers sick.

I dont know where you have the idea from. Its not real. Of course they might fix a bug in their instance, answer a modmail. Moderating a lemmy instance isnt that crazy of a deal. Of course its labour but the idea to call them scammers because they moderated their instance feels like you might wanna smoke less, more or something else (metaphor for get your head straight).

This judgemental shit just isnt healthy in this place and people hating on other people doing shit for the community isnt as cool as edgy as you think.