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Monday, July 24, 2006 12:00 AM

"I make $1.45 a week and I love it"

On Amazon Mechanical Turk, thousands of people are happily being paid pennies to do mind-numbing work. Is it a boon for the bored or a virtual sweatshop?
By Katharine Mieszkowski

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  • Monday, July 24, 2006 12:21 AM

    Is saying "Turk" an insult?

    I don't think that Turk is necessarily equivalent to Nigger. It depends what the Turkish people want to be called. Every group needs to be called something, or they won't be called at all. A person from Italy is called an Italian. What should someone from Turkey be called? A Turkey?

    Maybe there is a good word and a bad word here, but I just don't know what they are.

    -- posted here by a Canuck

    —Katherine Collins Read Katherine Collins's other letters

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