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Old 05-05-2016, 09:26 AM  
Jel
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No worries mate, I get where you are coming from. From a pure numbers perspective, or ROI, a $3 an hour worker (or $120 per week) gets me about double that in revenue, sometimes more. In terms of time saved it's absolutely worth it to me.

But when I use contrast I am doing so not emotionally but rather to judge a market. These are essentially "unskilled" laborers. Meaning, there is next to ZERO 'skills' involved in the job. To me, this means literally anyone with some basic intelligence could do the job. I could swap out Haji A for Haji B and see absolutely zero difference. The only metric would be: are the videos getting uploaded correctly? A simple check either confirms or denies this.

So if anyone could do a job there's no incentive to find "the perfect person" because none exists. Your Grandma or a homeless person could do this work. LOL

So when I am asked to pay MORE for something literally a trained monkey could do I balk. Now if this were a designer, an editor, someone who did something either creative or technical, that would be a completely different story. I DO pay (much) more for that kind of skilled person.

It's called "grunt work" for a reason.
I get that totally, because there is a subtle difference there and your original reason about his factory worker neighbour... I think we're basically on the same hymn sheet anyway tbh
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