Originally Posted by Shap

I believe a lot of this is because of the low barrier to entry and the global nature of our industry. Obviously you (Dave) and I have high targets for what we want and expect to make. The same can't be said for people in smaller developing countries. For webmasters that live in countries where the average person earns $400 per month anything more than that is doing well for themselves. You ask any North American webmaster if they'd be satisfied with working full time and making $1000 profit a month and they would think you were crazy. However for every american that laughs at $1000/month profit there is a large amount of people that would bust their ass for that money in other countries.