> Once you start to "vet the workers", then you have the problem of "how are the workers vetted"?
> Once you start to "vet the workers", then you have the problem of "how are the workers vetted"? It's a problem but solvable. How does any employer vet applicants? It's a matter of additional process/time/cost, ideally more than covered by the higher earnings and strong demand for services. >You get what you pay for. If you get a bargain on price, then you get lower quality or have to spend more time checking their work. This can and cant be true. I moonlight offering marketing freelancing services. 80%+ of clients that come to me have have been sold overpriced snake-oil from boiler room marketing agencies. A big part of initial meetings is to re-establish trust in marketing. Typically I'll increase ROMI by 30%-60%, and I'm not paying myself peanuts. In the extreme I had a client last year paying ~$10k/mth to have a company list them across a handful of free directories. These business owners are experts in other areas and just don't know they are being screwed until someone more knowledgeable sees it. I'd be the same with much IT work. And if I could have a freelance service that set a quality benchmark, then I'm happy to compete on price from there. With Elance I don't know if I'm paying more for less, or less for less. I guess this is why word of mouth and relationships are so valuable.
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> If my kids have a 1/3 chance of interacting with someone that doesn’t think college is worth it, Many people believe college is n...
NewI got tired of the price hikes of the ad free netflix and finally canceled.
>This is pathological.
1) No, but the tracking needed for targeted ads is also behind a consent wall.
The attention economy is real, your eyes have value that is surprisingly high, and buying out that attention so you can have a pure you-c...
> Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand That's true, but they care deeply about the consequences of that: > ab...
There's a part of the tech industry that uses what I would call dark influencer techniques.
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> Once you start to "vet the workers", then you have the problem of "how are the workers vetted"?
> Once you start to "vet the workers", then you have the problem of "how are the workers vetted"? It's a problem but solvable. How does any employer vet applicants? It's a matter of additional process/time/cost, ideally more than covered by the higher earnings and strong demand for services. >You get what you pay for. If you get a bargain on price, then you get lower quality or have to spend more time checking their work. This can and cant be true. I moonlight offering marketing freelancing services. 80%+ of clients that come to me have have been sold overpriced snake-oil from boiler room marketing agencies. A big part of initial meetings is to re-establish trust in marketing. Typically I'll increase ROMI by 30%-60%, and I'm not paying myself peanuts. In the extreme I had a client last year paying ~$10k/mth to have a company list them across a handful of free directories. These business owners are experts in other areas and just don't know they are being screwed until someone more knowledgeable sees it. I'd be the same with much IT work. And if I could have a freelance service that set a quality benchmark, then I'm happy to compete on price from there. With Elance I don't know if I'm paying more for less, or less for less. I guess this is why word of mouth and relationships are so valuable.
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