The Online Hell of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk - The Atlantic
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/amazon-mechanical-turk/551192
Technology has helped rid the American economy of many of the routine, physical, low-paid jobs that characterized the workplace of the last century. Gone are the women who sewed garments for pennies, the men who dug canals by hand, the children who sorted through coal. Today, more and more jobs are done at a computer, designing new products or analyzing data or writing code. But technology is also enabling a new type of terrible work, in which Americans complete mind-numbing tasks for (...)
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