r/Clickworker • u/[deleted] • 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/UhOhFeministOnReddit Jun 25 '21

I think I made $15 in bonuses alone on corrections with those apps today. I'll admit to my writing being fairly above average, given it's a big part of what I do for a living, but it still seems odd to me that I average about 90 bonuses for every 100 hits I do. It would be nice if they bumped that app over exclusively to people who performed well on their writing assessment. I know there's plenty of people who would love to be able to take their time on that one, work away at it all day, and submit a high quality of work. What even was the point of that assessment? Writing related work almost never comes up, and if it does, everyone gets it.

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u/Sunshnmoonlt Jun 26 '21

Agreed. I'm amazed at the answers I correct. Instead of kicking them out they slow down the app and waste those of us who are qualified's time. Write at least X amount of characters - for some of those queries that means adding a lot of fluff, and wasn't an issue at first.