I keep pressing the lever. When do I get my reward?

The Internet: two and a half billion humans pushing keys to get their reward pellet.

We're getting something out of sitting in front of computers, tapping away for hours, but what exactly?

Obviously, we are getting "rewards" or we would not keep doing it.

Perhaps many of us are finding a sort of interactive dreamworld that trumps IRL in narcissistic pay-off.

A few of us are actually making money at this activity of staring into computer screens and fingering keyboards; others of us, see our "page view numbers" increasing and our "eBook purchasing numbers" increasing and our LIKES increasing, and we smile: my life may be shit now, but extrapolating from the "numbers" my future is so bright I have to wear Time Travel bracelets on my wrists and escape into another TIME and hide inside a 5K protective Field to survive the envy and stalkers and paparazzi and angry competitors who want to be me.

@hg47