*>"Why isn't there something that makes it super simple for me to take surveys on my phone while I wait somewhere?" Judging by the going rates on mturk, you ar

*>"Why isn't there something that makes it super simple for me to take surveys on my phone while I wait somewhere?" Judging by the going rates on mturk, you aren't going to make a quarter for a simple survey, more like a few cents. In my experience, a task that pays $0.25 likely to take 10+ minutes and require some actual effort. Not that these are bad things necessarily. I've seen some pattern-recognition type tasks on mturk in the $0.25 range that I'd call fun. Also, in the case of actual surveys I wonder how the value of a regular survey taker's responses would change over time? Would it go up by creating an ever more specific profile of yourself or go down as the collector already has data for your demographic? Are the surveys even necessary? Could someone simply create an open market for personal data? Just put some subset of your current snapshot up for bid and collect small passive income from accesses to it cutting out the middlemen who currently collect and market this data via their "free" web services. Fascinating possibilities, imo.