kaal:claim:3128900-040

Payment intermediary fees such as Paypal's are viable only for higher volume workers who can eventually avoid them, so they operate as an entry barrier against new micro task workers.

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The fees make is only economically viable for higher volume workers who can at some point avoid the Paypal fees but create barriers to entry for new micro task workers.

From

Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018), 4.2 Transaction Cost Removal, p. 16
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Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900

Holds when

centralized platforms relying on third party payment intermediaries

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failuresupport: arguedfailure: Payment fee entry barrierfamily: adoption-and-usability-barriereconomics

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