Young Turks

Posted in Industry Insights by Jay Ferrari on July 25th, 2006

After reading, and re-reading, this Salon article on Amazon Mechanical Turks (an emerging class of cyber-serf), I still can’t understand why anyone is willing to work for such negligible amounts. If you want extra income, a paper route or shift at 7-Eleven would be much more lucrative. But there are plenty of takers, and their pennies add up.

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