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Comment by flywithdolp | Hacker News Reader

Ofcourse Amazon will try to protect them selfs against lawsuits

I do think that Amazon have some moral issues, Since I came across Amazon M turk.

They basically have army of over 500,000 registered workers Those people make few cents per micro tasks while amazon make x10 that amount of each task and leave tiny slice of the cake for its core users.

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I highly doubt Amazon makes 10x profit over what they pay their workers. My guess would be that they have very thin margins per worker, and just have a lot of workers.

M'turk doesn't seem that hard too replicate, yet I am not aware of notable competitors (outside of specialized niches like design or captcha solving). If there were massive margins surely there would be highly advertised competitors trying to get in on these massive profits.

i think 10X is conservative tbh

I doubt they can have such high margin while there is so much competition : https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-mechanical-turk/competito...

there is competition from a customer perspective, but not really from an "employee" perspective. the people working in these cannot unionise and effectively negotiate their wage EDIT: if anything these competitors make it worse by suppressing wages even further

I like how the comment above you is "I doubt they make as much as 10X" while you're saying they're making much more. I'd side with you, though, considering how scummy Amazon's practices can get. The way they treat their workers and "shave off costs" (read: make work conditions inhumane) is a capitalist wet dream and a worker's nightmare.

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