Freelancing gives me mixed feelings, regardless of platform. I've done small bits of freelance work here and there. It's definitely nice to have the freedom to tell a boss (client) to fuck off or say "no" to a job that's shit. But at the same time it's inherently atomizing and not prone to unionization or other forms of collective action. Freelancers typically have petit bourgeois crab bucket mindset and are not prone to banding together for any kind of social justice, even higher remuneration. They tend to under-bid each other in the hopes of getting more contracts, driving average bids down to the lowest possible amount that one can survive off of.
this shit pisses me off to no end. i've never paid to bid. oh how i wished we had a freelance site thats not shit like this or fivver.
Freelancing gives me mixed feelings, regardless of platform. I've done small bits of freelance work here and there. It's definitely nice to have the freedom to tell a boss (client) to fuck off or say "no" to a job that's shit. But at the same time it's inherently atomizing and not prone to unionization or other forms of collective action. Freelancers typically have petit bourgeois crab bucket mindset and are not prone to banding together for any kind of social justice, even higher remuneration. They tend to under-bid each other in the hopes of getting more contracts, driving average bids down to the lowest possible amount that one can survive off of.