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Originally posted by CoolE
I agree with FI.
I'm not worried about competition per se, but what concerns me is the number of people who are willing to work for peanuts. I won't work on any project that doesn't bring in anything less than 4k US per week for 40 hours per week of my time - that's only $100 per hour, not much really. There are all kinds of newbies out there that feel that $800 per week is great money. I wonder if the market will simply become more and more saturated until we are all making that kind of chump change.
The other thing that concerns me about newbie competition is that they are incredibly ignorant, to the point of being a hazard to themselves and all of us around them. In the last two days on GFY I have seen people who:
a) Wonder if they have to pay any income tax if they live in country A and their affiliate checks come from country B.
b) state that obscenity laws do not apply in any way to the internet, like they do to magazines and television, because when a person clicks on a link they are somehow acknowledging that it is okay for them to receive porn, and therefore it can't be obscene. (?)
These morons are going to hurt some of the rest of us with their recklessness and ignorance.
Mark my words, some group of 3 or 4 or 5 underage newbie webmasters is going bring down an entire medium-sized affiliate program one of these days. Or maybe a host. Or maybe an IPSP. Or maybe a content provider.
I don't think I have ever agreed with anything Labret has ever said until now - he is right when he says that newbies are fucking dangerous.
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Finally someone posting a valid reason for concern.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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