[consulting] RE : Lowball offers

[Victor Kane]

+1 Sam

1000 sucks for 10.000 work

That was the point.

Interesting you would choose 1946 (the year of my birth) and one year after
the passage of the Taft Hartley law.

Erm, the idea is for wages to increase and the price of goods to go down in
order to be able to call it progress, not for wages to go down.

Victor

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Matt Chapman <matt at ninjitsuweb.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Victor Kane <victorkane at gmail.com> wrote:
> > No-one in the world should be building Drupal sites for five dollars an
> > hour.
>
> Really? What if USD$5 provides a middle-class or better life in their
> country, and they can't get a better rate. Would you deny them to
> opportunity to work to avoid the mere possibility of depressing your
> own wage?
>
> By the way, 1946 called, and they're pissed off that you got a
> super-computer/pocket calculator that out-performs ENIAC for only $5.
> Do you know how many computer engineers that's going to put out of
> work? No one should have to compete with that.
>
> The progress of technology is always toward lower costs, so anyone who
> wants to be a technologist better keep expanding their skills or be
> preparing to accept lower wages.
>
> All the Best,
>
> Matt Chapman
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> > 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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