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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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