[Thorrez]

Yep

>“Most people’s first mistake is they go on there and accept any task they see,” says Naab. “They’ll do these transcriptions — $0.01 to transcribe a whole receipt for Expensify. That’s a terrible ROI.”

[technofiend]

It's an investment because the more lucrative jobs require turks have hundreds or thousands of successfully completed tasks. So people will take one penny jobs simply to build credibility.

[jmnicolas]

It depends, $0.01 might be worth something in a very poor country.

But on the other hand if you have access to a computer a poor country, 1 cent might not be worth your time anyway.

[mruts]

You can use MTurk on phones I assume? Even very poor people often have smartphones and data where I am living (Tanzania).