The Complicated Financial Lives of Freelancers
> <i>Freelancers are competing not just within their town, not just with in their state, but are completing globally, and there's just huge global pressures on the amount that they can earn...</i><p>bingo. for a piece of work that can be well specified, separated out from the main workflow and then farmed out, it's natural, in today's world, for the customer to open the field globally. a little <i>too</i> natural.<p>so, the US freelancer is left asking the question: how can I compete with wages set at the global standard of living, including currency exchange differences?<p>there doesn't seem to be a good answer.