While I can agree that in this forum one can earn significantly more than the minimum wage in many developing countries around the world, I would advise to people to be careful on depending too much on this forum and its campaigns as sole source of income, because signature campaigns come and go, and services willing to pay users also come and go and it may led people to face no income for entire weeks or months.
It is better to also complement the money one can make on internet with a formal job in real life if possible, so in the eyes of society one is also a professional with a career and not just someone profiting time from the computer.
Participating in this forum does not have much room in a resumé, unfortunately.
The topic of Op proves how people sees the forum these days. When we first came here it was not because of money and people invite people to the forum to make money and that is the total mindset.
If not, I don't see any reasons that someone will compare a discussion forum to a full time government job. Does it even relate?
The forum earning not long-term as the government work and should be seen as a motivation to continue contributing to the forum and not to invite the whole family to flood here in search of money or signature campaign.