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Knowledge is power. Although, sometimes depressing.

"Amazon Mechanical Turk Pays Less Than 40% of US Minimum Wage, Research Suggests" [2021]

"The results of a study by researchers in the US and Mexico suggest that crowdsourced workers in the Amazon Mechanical Turk marketplace, with a 75% majority based in the United States, are earning as little as a median $2.83 per hour – about 39.5% of the mandated federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, since the remote workers spend a third of their working time scanning lists of requests for work, managing payments, and performing other kinds of ‘invisible labor’.

The findings come in the wake of a recent report from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which criticized the low level of pay and benefits involved in being a ‘turker’, and which characterizes the AMT ecostructure effectively as a low-quality sweatshop for under-funded academic researchers."

https://www.unite.ai/amazon-mechanical-turk-pays-less-than-40-of-us-minimum-wage-research-suggests/

FYI, link to original study pdf: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.06835.pdf
 
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