[null_ptr]

Just as demeaning as the equivalent "cheap coder" marketplaces. If you're a company in a developed nation, you should be forced to pay your employees and contractors salaries on par with life in your country, not theirs. It's the only way to be fair. Hiring someone from Bangladesh should not entitle you to pay them twenty cents an hour.

[meric]

>> Hiring someone from Bangladesh should not entitle you to pay them twenty cents an hour.

Developing countries lack the capital to compete; Instead they compete on price, and now you're suggesting a price floor should be instituted.

Unless, of course, the law will discriminate between workers who are a "commodity" and those who are not, so that those "commodity" workers can continue to compete on price.

Now we're back at square one, demeaningly calling other people a "cheap X".

[enra]

> If you're a company in a developed nation, you should be forced to pay your employees and contractors salaries on par with life in your country, not theirs. It's the only way to be fair.

Sounds like a line from Atlas Shrugged, when goverment forced rules to the market since "it was not fair" that some companies had better offering with cheaper price. It's fair if both parties voluntarily agree, there is no other way.

I think the point was more about degreading of "design" , and the potential "cost" for the customer, when the business owner doesn't care or know what he/she is buying.

If know that you're buying a graphic to present your company and choosing it by your personal taste, then it's ok, but it's not necessarily good design. Like if you order a painting of yourself, it probably will not end up being the Mona Lisa.

[tomjen3]

Life isn't fair.

And besides with those rules the companies would simply move out of the country.