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Centralized mechanical turk marketplace leaders operate as rent seeking intermediaries that generate numerous inefficiencies in the market and deprive freelance workers of a share in the profits the platforms capture.

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Similarly, centralized mechanical turk marketplace leaders act as rent seeking intermediaries that create numerous inefficiencies in the market.

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Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018), 4 Innovating the Mechanical Turk Market, p. 15
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Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900

Holds when

centralized micro task marketplaces including MTurk and Crowdflower

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failuresupport: arguedfailure: Rent seeking intermediationfamily: recentralization-drifteconomicsdecentralization

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