My brother and I got an weekly "allowance" as kids as long as we did the expected chores; fed and watered the dogs, mowed the lawn, weeded the garden, etc. If the chores didn't get done there was no pay out. I forget how much it was but it wasn't much.
That is what motivated us to earn better money in different ways. at 8 and 9 years old we started wading in a nearby golf course's ponds to recover golf balls. we'd clean them a sell them back to the golfers at a little stand we had along the T-off at one of the holes. It was actually pretty lucrative, less work and lots more money than earning the allowance.
I worked as a trap boy and later a scorekeeper at the local gun club for 25 and 50 cents a squad. We shot groundhogs for a local farmer for a quarter a tail.
Trapping at that time (late 60's/early 70's) was by far our most lucrative enterprise. A single muskrat would pay double our weekly allowance.
BB & YT's posts got me thinking about whether or not we would have gotten into those jobs and endeavors had we just been given a sum of money each week with nothing expected in return.
It's human nature to be lazy if we can get away with it. Probably why Indians of the Caribbean didn't make good slaves for the Spaniards. Food was easy to collect, weather wonderful so shelters easy, so they had lots of free time to be ...lazy.