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By setting an arbitrary floor of ten bucks you've also cut off that opportunity for many though.
by marshallp 16y ago
By 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.