# kaal:claim:3128900-010

**Claim.** Paying proportionally, up to fifteen times, for the same project output is waste, and the necessity of multiplying work also pushes micro task workers into lower rates with no pay increases.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- centralized platforms using redundant task assignment

**Source quote.**

> Requiring requesters to pay proportionally (e.g. up to 15 times) for work per project result in waste. The necessity of multiplication of work also subjects micro task workers to lower rates and lack of payment increases.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation* (2018), 1 Problems in Centralized Mechanical Turk, page 7

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900

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**Failure mode.** Rate suppression from redundancy  (family: inequality-and-access-divide)

**Topics.** consensus-and-security, economics

**Keywords.** worker-compensation, consensus-by-redundancy, waste, labor-economics

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