Tech-utopians are hopeful that when computers become sophisticated enough, they will take over all the jobs we don’t like doing, allowing us to focus on more creative and compassionate occupations, inherently unsuited to machines: a workforce of dancers, relationship therapists, and yoga instructors. Realistically, though, the type of labour performed on mTurk—menial, freelance, context-specific, as-yet-to-be-automated-but-seemingly-automated work—seems more representative of the future of human labour.