The concept of a Mechanical Turk is genius. Although people cannot make a living off of this, it still is creating ways for people to make easy, quick money, without a college education. Taking in account of the opposition, I believe that it's not immoral because people are not forced to do these jobs and they are well aware that they are doing this work without much pay. Many of them are not doing these jobs for the money but only to keep themselves entertained so if you really want to look at the whole situation closely, people are sort of getting paid to keep themselves busy as opposed to looking at it as below minimum wage work. Also in technical terms they are getting paid justly for the work that they do because the tasks provided by the site do not call for much experience or effort.
The comical feel to the Aaron Shaw video grabbed my attention and made learning more about the turk system more enjoyable. I kind of was confused to how the Colbert Report video related to the turk subject though. I do find it funny that the turks became upset when the grad student began to sell their drawn sheep for $20 when only paying $2 for them to draw them. Maybe in the aspect of products in that sense it may be immoral to sell the work of art of another. But according to the site his actions were still considered moral so he's not to blame.
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