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I hear they do micro work for mechanical turk in some Finnish prisons. It is optional, but surely won't teach you anything at all about tech.
Beats being a slave on a chain gang in the American prison system.
Well maybe, micro work is really dehumanizing and cognitively rough. I hear some US inmates do work at McDonalds and if I had to choose between that and microwork, and if time I spent working was the same with both options, I would take the fastfood job any day. At least have done that before irl so I know what to expect.
I'm ADHD in IT job, and my mind would explode if work I did with computer was just unskilled datasorting job.
But I do know US inmates have basically slave conditions. But I read a book about microwork and it sounds like psychological torture to me. Like what they do in Severance.
(Work without worker is the book)