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Managing Human Workers With an Algorithm
New submitter prayag writes "With the advent of crowdsourcing platforms it has become easier for people to 'automate' simple, yet repetitive tasks that computers aren't good at by hiring thousands of people at once. This can help some business cheaply accomplish certain tasks, but it can also be misused by spammers. A company called MobileWorks is even outsourcing this concept, reaching out to workers in developing nations whose income needs aren't as high. 'Kulkarni, who founded the company in 2010 with fellow graduate students from the University of California, Berkeley, says the value of tasks is set so that workers can reasonably earn $2 to $4 an hour; payments are on a sliding scale, with lower rates for poorer countries. "Even though they are acting as agents of a computer program, we are creating an opportunity for them," he says. MobileWorks charges its clients rates starting at $5 per hour for workers' time.'"
"Stupid people reference Marx, therefore any reference to Marx is stupid."? Pity you use logical fallacies continually in your arguments, in every single post .. because it sounds like you're actually just smart enough to be able to recognize a logical fallacy .. and yet you keep using them. Either you're not recognizing that you're doing it, or you don't care because the logical fallacies suit an agenda. It would be nice to have a more meaningful discussion with you about this stuff if you ever decide you want to stop with the constant logical fallacies for a moment, and really think/talk clearly and earnestly about this stuff. Until then though, it's a waste of time trying.