Timeline for How can the online freelance IT market be segregated?
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| Jan 22, 2017 at 9:48 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackFreelance/status/823105114173042688 | ||
| Jan 17, 2017 at 21:16 | comment | added | Jon | I am sorry if my original post came across as some kind of rant, but I was merely asking the community about ways that things could be segregated. Try not to take things so personally in the future. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 19:08 | comment | added | Scott | Wal-Mart, which is primarily Chinese based imports, has destroyed local mom & pop operations wherever it has sprung up. There's even a movie about it.. Sorry. I think you are exploring the impossible in a capitalistic society. For centuries people have been trying to kill off or stifle their competition. It honestly just sounds as though you are slightly bitter about being underbid. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 16:42 | history | edited | Jon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 17, 2017 at 16:22 | comment | added | Jon | But that's why we pay additional fees on imported goods to discourage everyone from buying stuff online from china and destroying the local industries. I don't see anything wrong with implementing safe guards that allow clients and freelancers to compete at local market prices. The original question was to explore how this could be achieved. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 8:27 | comment | added | Scott | But I can go online and buy a coke for 50¢... so.... It's a global marketplace. Supply and demand. Unfortunately in some online industries there's way more supply than demand and everyone is competing for the same crumbs at times. If you want to only work in your local marketplace.. get off the internet to find clients. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 8:02 | comment | added | Jon | Ok but if you go to your local supermarket looking to buy a can of Coke for 50 cents, you probably won't find it. Even if you feel that it should be cheaper, it is set at the local market price. This is what I mean by segregation as I think it makes more sense to consume and offer services at local rates. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 3:45 | comment | added | Scott | It is the nature of capitalism that vendor prices vary and customers choose what price point they feel a service is worth. Any "segregation" is determined by price. Not sure what you are proposing or who would be the judge and jury to decide what workers/companies are worth more, or less, than others. Everyone has a competitor at a cheaper price, everyone. | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 16:48 | comment | added | user3244085 | Then your were told incorrectly :) | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 13:16 | comment | added | user6035379 | I was told freelancing does not really exist as a full time, only income, viable career. | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 8:12 | answer | added | Peter MV | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 7:07 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 16, 2017 at 6:48 | answer | added | user3244085 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 5:20 | history | asked | Jon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |