And that is properly a bigger change than these spec work sites.
I bet there are some services like this , but i'm not sure it's a service fit for a small company: it just seems like a lot of work and takes a lot of time and traffic to do it right.
And it's mostly not about graphic design , but interaction design and content.
When you hire an employee, you hire a probabilistic machine that may produce stuff closer to what you want. When you contract out, then you pay a probabilistic machine that may produce what you have specified which hopefully was what you wanted.
Well, no. That's a very unhelpful generalization that tries to subvert an established nomenclature for an easy, hip-sounding soundbite. The term "commodity" is very precisely defined and has nothing to do with "hiring probabilistic machines".
A commodity is a product which can be supplied and purchased at no difference in quality. It doesn't matter if I buy petroleum from maker A or maker B, because both are, to the extent that I care, petroleum. Commodities allow you to deal with abstract notions of goods, separate from the physical goods, thereby fundamentally changing the way you trade goods, since (for example) you can buy from the cheapest supplier and sell to the highest bidder, with no concern for the actual stuff being exchanged.
You're probably a developer (my wild guess), you don't have a problem like this. If I have to make a parallel, it's like your CEO comments your code because he coded on the CBM 64 during the 80s. Exactly the same thing.
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".
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.
And besides with those rules the companies would simply move out of the country.
