# kaal:claim:3128900-035

**Claim.** 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.

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

**Holds when.**

- centralized micro task marketplaces including MTurk and Crowdflower

**Source quote.**

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

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation* (2018), 4 Innovating the Mechanical Turk Market, page 15

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

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**Failure mode.** Rent seeking intermediation  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** economics, decentralization

**Keywords.** rent-seeking, intermediation, market-inefficiency, centralized-platforms

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-013

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