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The problem is that as soon as a site shows up and allows bids, there will always be people willing to underbid. It's a race to the bottom; and the people comin
by icey 17y ago
The problem is that as soon as a site shows up and allows bids, there will always be people willing to underbid. It's a race to the bottom; and the people coming from places with lower costs of living will always be able to underbid you.
- fugue88 17y agoIt seems that the more the site focuses on bids, the more likely this is to happen. Bidding systems inherently ignore distinctive qualities of at least one side of the transaction. In this case, it treats programmers as commodities, and so the prices tend toward commodity prices.