[mikehollinger]

Yeah I noticed as well. It seems like what this is really saying is that the Mechanical Turk marketplace is an interesting study in economics. Buyers are offering to buy pieces of information for too high of a price and a select few people have found out how to nab those contracts.

I halfway expected to see a secondary market emerge where you “complete” a top expensive task like “translate this text” by bundling it with five other translation tasks and posting it for three times the price.