[consulting] RE : Lowball offers

[Victor Kane]

No-one in the world should be building Drupal sites for five dollars an
hour.

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:46 PM, arkelly at cognisync.com <
arkelly at cognisync.com> wrote:

> Agreed.  I think you owe this guy an apology for your misinterpretation,
> he's just trying to participate.
>
> Sent from my Android Phone.
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Fred Jones" <fredthejonester at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Mar 22, 2011 1:43 pm
> Subject: [consulting] RE : Lowball offers
> To: "A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers" <
> consulting at drupal.org>
>
>
> > People should be paid for the value of their work; no-one should be paid
> $5
> > / hour for anything.
> > No-one should be paid at below the poverty level for building Drupal
> sites
> > or any other kind of sites.
>
> Victor, your political views are skewed. So are your facts. In
> Vietnam, $5 is far above poverty level. According to wikipedia [1] the
> GDP in the US is 14,624,184 USD and in Vietnam it's 101,987 USD. If
> you can divide you can see that's a factor of 143. Far more than 40
> actually.
>
> See also this page [2] that the Gross National Income (per capita) in
> the US is $33,070.30 per person and in Vietnam it's $392.19 per
> person. Factor of 84.
>
> Based on less than $400 per year, $5 is actually a very, very good
> rate in Vietnam.
>
> Please check your facts before you spew.
>
> Thank you,
> Fred
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29
> [2]
> http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_gro_nat_inc_percap-gross-national-income-per-capita
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