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They aren't ruining creative industries at all. If you're good and can market yourself you can always find people to pay the rates you want. If you are missin
by sanswork 18y ago
They aren't ruining creative industries at all.
If you're good and can market yourself you can always find people to pay the rates you want. If you are missing one of those things you wouldn't be getting the rates you want anyhow. Your work is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. If you can't find people to pay what you want then you are overvaluing your abilities.
- Raphael 18y agoThe point is that people rely on a living wage, and too much competition reduces it to an unreasonably low rate for people in more expensive areas.
- briansmith 18y agoExpensive cities and design jobs are both luxury goods. Some day I hope to start up a bunch of huge computer labs throughout SE Asia and Africa so that kids can come in and do custom programming and graphic design, undercutting all of us Westerners. I'd rather have disadvantaged teenagers drawing little icons for $5 a hour than working as hookers to get $10 a night--even if it means that designers in the US won't be able to afford to live in downtown S.F., drinking $6 cups of coffee, and buying $5K of gadgets every year.