Kalshi offers up to $135,000 for people to play GTA VI on launch day, research 'game's economy'

With Grand Theft Auto VI less than a week away, Kalshi, a company focused on prediction market betting, announced on LinkedIn on Thursday that it was looking for someone to investigate the video game as part of a full-time job for the company."This is a real job. We're looking for someone whose parents said video games would never pay the bills. They were wrong, and you can tell them we said so," said Chris Tanasescu, Growth lead at Kalshi, in a LinkedIn post.Even with employees of the company publicly claiming that the job offering is legitimate, The Jerusalem Post could not independently verify the claims that someone would actually be contracted by Kalshi to perform this job.According to the information shared on LinkedIn, the GTA VI Researcher position that Kalshi is offering would pay $120,000 per year (or upon project completion) with additional bonuses of up to $15,000.What does researching GTA VI mean?Kalshi explained that the role will require someone with at least 3 years of streaming experience to play and livestream GTA VI on launch day on Thursday, November 19, and create a model of Leonida's (the fictional state where the game takes place) economy."As Kalshi's GTA VI Researcher, you'll begin at midnight on November 19 and play until you beat the story.