#short firm

[genabi]

We’ll Find Something (2015)

[chieftech]

Professional turkers weigh each HIT according to how much they’ll earn per minute, even if it’s merely pennies. So when I hoped to convince a few of them to participate in my documentary, I figured the best way to get their attention was to pay up. In the request I posted, I asked turkers if they thought it was weird that I was paying them to be in my film. “Everything has a price” one turker responded. “It literally takes all of your energy to earn pennies some days.