[shuringai]

bangladeshi click farms[0] are cheaper to use to bypass captcha than renting residential proxies to solve PoW. Also image captcha cannot scale automatally in difficulty (as an incident response) but PoW can (see how bitcoin adjusts with the miners)

[0] https://2captcha.com/

[aurbano]

Just did the math from the numbers on their site and on average a "worker" doing captchas for them gets paid 0.2$/hour.

Adjusting based on average monthly salary in Bangladesh (157$) [1] and the US (4056$) [2] that would be similar to an American making 5.2$/hour which is surprisingly close to the current minimum wage in the US (7.25$/hour) [3]

So I guess this must be a fairly decent way to earn money if you're young/poor in Bangladesh...

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/bangladesh/wages#:~:text=Wages%.... [2] https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/average-income-in... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_Sta...

[dustinmoris]

5.2 is not close to 7.25. That's like 30% less than the minimum wage. Minimum wage itself is a massive struggle but 30% less is just plain offensive and dehumanising.

> So I guess this must be a fairly decent way to earn money if you're young/poor in Bangladesh...

Solving dumb captchas is never a fair or decent way to earn money, not when you are poor and definitely not when you are young. Creating living conditions for other human beings where they can be easily exploited and used for mindless degrading work such as solving dumb captchas is one of the most grotesque things of the 21st century.