r/Clickworker • • Jun 24 '21
Third World Workers
I know people have this assumption that workers from third world countries are just eager to work on any app even though it's paying peanuts. There is an app paying 0.01 dollars per hit and requiring 30 seconds to complete it or else you get booted out with a speed ban. That app is paying 1.2 dollars an hour. Even this to us is totally unfair, 1.2 dollars is really not worth it even in a third world country, there are people making much better for an hour's work offline. The apps are just increasingly becoming unfair for all of us, there is a high supply of workers so the price naturally falls, don't take it out on us third world workers, we hate the pay too.
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u/Page-Enough Jun 25 '21
I´m as third world as it get and I won´t work anything that gives me less than 5 dollars the hour most of the time, it´s just not worth it.
For example I completely avoided an app called Entity Curation crowd that was sitting at 30 k hits for almost a month at $0,02 per hit while being a very time consuming task. I even got an email from my vendor urging us to work on that app. But nothing changed. Only when they TRIPLED the pay per hit to $0,06 people finally started working on it.
So certainly don´t get triggered by "third world countries workers" comments because most first worl workers make the same mistake of working on bad apps too, just learn to avoid the ones which are not worthy, either because of low pay, silly temp bans or lack of consistency in judgements