Who Makes Below Minimum Wage in the Mechanical Turk Sweatshop?

Re:Who Makes Below Minimum Wage in the Mechanical Turk Sweat... by grecy on Saturday July 06, 2013 @09:11PM (#6000642)

If the end goal was not profit, this would not be a problem.

If the end goal was to produce some goods or services that are of benefit to people, while looking after employees, the environment and the local community, the world would be a much better place.

Of course, the stock market might not grow so fast, but that's just made up anyway. People struggling to buy food on paltry wages is not made up.

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Re:Who Makes Below Minimum Wage in the Mechanical Turk Sweat... by icelancer on Monday July 08, 2013 @05:01AM (#6005832)

>If the end goal was not profit, this would not be a problem.

I suggest you try your experiment on sentient creatures that are not motivated by utility. I am unaware of any at this point, however.

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Re:Who Makes Below Minimum Wage in the Mechanical Turk Sweat... by grecy on Monday July 08, 2013 @01:00PM (#6007757)

Humans managed about 200,000 years of doing exactly that.

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Re:Who Makes Below Minimum Wage in the Mechanical Turk Sweat... by diminoten on Monday July 08, 2013 @06:15PM (#6009713)

I find the past 200,000 years of "management" unacceptable and largely void of progress. Only once sufficient incentive was established in what we now know as a capitalistic global market did we see humans as a species begin to solve existential problems at a race previously reserved for science fiction and fantasy.

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