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minus-squaresnownytelinkfedilink22•5 months agoYup…I’ve had the displeasure of being on that thing for a few months some years back. I couldn’t shrug the feeling of feeling like a sweatshop worker. “Ah yes, do these menial tasks that’ll take you 40 minutes of your time to earn…5 cents! woo!”
minus-square@tempest@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish12•5 months agoI always assumed that shit only made sense if you were living in a place with very low cost of living when paid in US dollars.
minus-squaresnownytelinkfedilink13•5 months agoIt doesn’t pay nearly enough as a good source of income. There’s a very stingy and narrow set of requirements you have to meet before you see or even do dollar-amount tasks. If you’re docked by a single ‘Requester’ aka your micro-bosses on there, then your chances slip. So, I can’t recommend Amazon Machine Turk to anyone. Only do it for beer money. Don’t do it for a living income.
Yup…I’ve had the displeasure of being on that thing for a few months some years back. I couldn’t shrug the feeling of feeling like a sweatshop worker. “Ah yes, do these menial tasks that’ll take you 40 minutes of your time to earn…5 cents! woo!”
I always assumed that shit only made sense if you were living in a place with very low cost of living when paid in US dollars.
It doesn’t pay nearly enough as a good source of income.
There’s a very stingy and narrow set of requirements you have to meet before you see or even do dollar-amount tasks.
If you’re docked by a single ‘Requester’ aka your micro-bosses on there, then your chances slip.
So, I can’t recommend Amazon Machine Turk to anyone. Only do it for beer money. Don’t do it for a living income.