[thelist] RE: Does web design have a future in 'highwage'countries? (wasQuestion])

[patrick]

Chris George wrote:
>>Chris George wrote:
>>
>>
>>>But anyway, my point was not about the quality of work, but 
>>
>>of cheap 
>>
>>>labourers*, and how your analogy emphasizes opposite to what you 
>>>intended**.
>>>
>>>* Cheap does not mean unskilled.
>>>** That being a lone ranger might not be as financially useful as 
>>>working on a team.
>>
>>But in reference to
>>	how do i compete i don't know everything it is spot on.
> 
> 
> I disagree entirely. They're a group of workers that work for ~1/4 of
> the workers they replaced worked for. As someone already pointed out -
> "yeah, but who wants to work for 5-10 bucks an hour?". That's why that
> analogy doesn't work. "When in Rome..." doesn't solve anything.
> 
> I'm not sure who builds houses where you live... 

Why -- if you are a professional web designer/developer/coder/whatever
-- do you see them as your competition? Can you not differentiate your
offerings from rent-a-coder.com?

patrick sanders
http://www.stoutstreet.com
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