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What irks me that as an Indian I can't create a job on MTurk! I would love to try MTurk but it is only open for US citizens..

• jacquesm 17y ago
  It shouldn't just irk you as an Indian, it irks me as a dutch person as well. If a service finds people from a certain country good enough to be 'minions' how come it finds them not good enough to be 'bosses' ? This is actually a really nice opportunity to give amazon a run for their money and to set up a competing service that operates world-wide on both the give and the take side.
  • paulsilver 17y ago
    There are employment laws in the UK which mean a Mechanical Turk-like system wouldn't be able to have jobs listed for such low amounts - I think it comes under the minimum wage laws. Because of this and similar laws in other countries, Amazon have kept job-posting MT accounts limited to the USA at the moment, which doesn't have the restriction. I don't know enough about Dutch or Indian law to know whether a similar system could be set up within them, but there are problems with rolling something like this out globally.
    • jacquesm 17y ago
      Minimum wage laws only apply to a situation where there is an employer-employee relationship between the two parties, this is much more like a free-lance situation.