Once Scale held the dominant position, its promises to workers faded. Through late 2021 and early 2022, I partnered with a Venezuelan journalist in Caracas, Andrea Paola Hernández, who interviewed Venezuelans who had worked for Scale during the Remotasks Plus program. We also embedded ourselves within the Remotasks Discord community, which Scale used to communicate and coordinate with its global workforce. We found through a spreadsheet the company left public that the workers’ earnings began to decline within weeks of the program’s launch; workers who started with earnings of forty dollars a
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