Re:Mormonism and Multilevel Marketing Companies
by ineedasername on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:10PM
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A big part of why they're not interesting is because they generally pay a small fraction of minimum wage. The median is about $2 an hour. So I don't think MTurk serves as an adequate example of the type of job the op referenced.
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Re:Mormonism and Multilevel Marketing Companies
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:31PM
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Much of the work done by stay at home moms pays less than minimum wage, though: Etsy stores, clipping coupons / general penny pinching, these MLMs.
I do think that the main difference is that the mechanical Turk work is just soul-crushingly boring.
Re:Mormonism and Multilevel Marketing Companies
by ineedasername on Monday July 20, 2020 @07:35PM
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Clipping coupons is soul crushingly boring as well. I also run an Etsy store as a side activity and make about $25 per hour, 5-10 hours a week. Median for all Etsy is still about minimum wage, which, again, is significantly better than MTurk @ $2 an hour. And I'd argue the high volume low margin work for Etsy stores looks every but as soul crushing.