> Human people can be forced to be incredibly machine like. Amazon has a site for humans to pick up small tasks and get paid for them called mechanical turk [1

> Human people can be forced to be incredibly machine like. Amazon has a site for humans to pick up small tasks and get paid for them called mechanical turk [1], which is a reference to a fake chess playing machine with a human inside [2]. With the great resignation and the workforce otherwise pushing for a reasonable standard of living, I'm not sure how heavily mturk is still used as depending on tasks and speed it's really sub-minimum wage work for many people. [3] But as The Atlantic article says, sometimes it's the only work people can get. [1] https://www.mturk.com/ https://www.mturk.com/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk [3] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/amazon-mechanical-turk/551192/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/amazon-...