There&#x27;s a lot more competition externally too, which doesn&#x27;t help any. Everyone with a computer and &quot;an eye for it&quot; has entered the market and underbids the experienced players. Similar things are happening in Photography where everyone buys a nice DSLR and then thinks they can do weddings.<p>When the new freelancers realize they aren&#x27;t cut out for it, they just take a job at a bigco again (filling the same role of course), and new inexperienced freelancers come up the ranks to replace them.<p>This seems to be the new world we live in - the &quot;gig economy&quot; means there are a lot of gigs but a lot more competition from less-experienced players.