MTurk costs will then become the standard costs, and it will be very difficult to obtain funding for a project involving linguistic resource production at any level that would allow for more traditional, non-crowdsourced resource construction methodologies.
our community's use of MTurk not only supports a workplace model that is unfair and open to abuses of a variety of sorts, but also creates a de facto standard for the development of linguistic resources that may have long-term funding consequences.