But for less than 1% of the pay
Not sure I see a career path from click-farm serf, either. It's the hopelessness of their situation that gives this pathos.
And your reference to "The Gods Must Be Crazy" was poignant. I'd credit the people in the Internet cafes in Bangladesh with not being savages around a computer. But I'm sure, living in Bangladesh, it would be hard to wrap your head around the concept of a distant people so wealthy and with so much leisure time that they're willing pay even a pittance to cheat at a game of popularity.
It's not the gods who must be crazy...