The Global Workforce
I had an interesting discussion recently about writing as a skil (and it made me think of other similar knowledge based professions too). Basically, you can hire people from - well foreign is wrong, but I guess non western countries? For literally pocket change these days. There are a surprising amount of places you can put this cheap labour to work for example writing content for web sites or articles, doing a range of online menial business activities like promotions, commenting on blogs etc, and pay $1 per hour or less.
The argument was put to me that if you can hire someone else that cheap, there is no real point doing 'menial' work yourself any longer. You are better off working at a highly paid job for 1 hour, then paying a Philipino for 10 hours.
The hole in this argument is that it can be an excuse not to do anything if you are just sitting there thinking 'my time is worth too much to do this' all the time. Lets face it, how much is your time really worth if you are sitting on the couch?
Quality is the other argument. If you buy articles from somewhere good like the content authority, you pretty much don't need to do edits. Anyone who has stumbled through a non English speakers best efforts will appreciate how nice it can be to pay just a little more and do the work for you!
It's a nice thought that you are keeping some poor family in food and water for what it takes you to buy a big mac though...
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