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Originally posted by AlienQ
Thread is digressing and turning into spam you cheap whores...
Why do you design for other people when you can make more money to design your own stuff?
For if you did design your own stuff you would actually charge more but instead are happy to break each others legs.
Is there really an answer to this?
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One reason why designers these days don't do their own stuff is because they don't have the capital to get started and at the rates new designers have to charge these days, it's really hard to get ahead and get any capital saved up unless you're in a third world country or living with mommy.
If one wants to get into the paysite business, they need to buy content, hosting, domains, software, etc. That costs alot of money. Maybe not as much as it did years ago because prices have come down in other fields, too, but with exclusive content being so important these days, it can still be extremely expensive. And to get started in cheaper alternatives like free sites, gallery submitting, SE, AVS.. all of that takes time to build a decent level of income. You have to pay your bills that you have NOW, and for some designers, that means spending every waking hour working for other people, leaving little to no time to work on anything of their own.
Rough situation, for sure.