I got paid $11 an hour to enter handwritten applications into a database, as a temp job back in the early 2010s. It was "low-skill" inasmuch as, "Locking in and moving efficiently through entire filing cabinets of forms, often written by people whose first script was not Latin, for 6-7 hours straight, every weekday, for 2 months, with no prior training," is "low-skill" (and I apparently did it much faster than my supervisors expected). $11/hr was less than it should have paid, and yet I have to commend the company I was working with, because they sourced local labor and paid still multiple times what the job would have commanded through outsourcing via Mturk.

The conditions you're describing were caused by the systemic globalist status quo that Mturk is a part of; Mturk did not fix that, it perpetuated it.