# kaal:claim:3128900-038

**Claim.** Centralized platform fees charged to requesters for the right to submit tasks exert downward pressure on worker compensation, so the fee structure itself is what depresses pay.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- centralized marketplaces such as Crowdflower and MTurk

**Source quote.**

> Such centralized fees add downward pressure on the platforms' worker compensation.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation* (2018), 4.1 No Platform Fees, page 16

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

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**Failure mode.** Fee driven wage suppression  (family: inequality-and-access-divide)

**Topics.** decentralization

**Keywords.** platform-fees, worker-compensation, centralized-platforms, cost-structure

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808867-034

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