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It occurs to me that my latest project actually gets me off the hook from this guy. Problem: People in developing countries have to work for 3rd world wages,
by jasonkester 16y ago
It occurs to me that my latest project actually gets me off the hook from this guy.
Problem: People in developing countries have to work for 3rd world wages, selling products and services to people who really can't afford to buy anything. Thus, they are doomed to remain poor by western standards.
Solution: Jason's website that lets them teach Spanish online to rich Americans, and doesn't let them pay themselves less than ten bucks an hour.
Dodged a bullet there!
- jolie 16y ago1) That's kind of awesome! 2) "This guy" is actually a lady. =)
- marshallp 16y agoBy setting an arbitrary floor of ten bucks you've also cut off that opportunity for many though.
- jasonkester 16y agoPossibly, but hopefully it'll stop the thing from turning into rentacoder, where everybody competes on price to the point where it's essentially free. A site where people who normally make less than $1/hr can sell their services online for less than $1/hr doesn't really help anybody. On the other hand, requiring people to charge the fair market value for their service forces them to compete on quality rather than price, which has the added benefit of making the service better, as well as getting people paid a fair wage.
- marshallp 16y agoThe one dollar foik wouldn't go for the sub dollar work so it's a nonissue. There's nothing wrong with rentacoder, it's a great site creating efficiencies (it only worries you if you were one of the inefficiencies in the system before - american/european programmers/writers)
- robryan 16y agoThat depends really, does rentacoder exist on a never ending churn of cheap labour that competes at unsustainable prices or does it actually provide people with a decent wage over the long term.
- swah 16y agoOTOH, people in 3rd world countries that have fast internet access and get to know your startup aren't probably the ones interested in teaching spanish to americans. I know I won't.
- jasonkester 16y agoThe nice thing about the 3rd world is that fast internet is everywhere. And it's cheap. Like cheap enough that the locals in the most remote little villages can afford to spend hours online every day.
- swah 16y agoTalking about my country: Brazil. Most people that know english well probably have fast internet, but no way its everywhere. Lan houses are pretty common here, and many lower income people still use those as they only access to computers and internet.