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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve Conan Trustrum" data-source="post: 7659366" data-attributes="member: 1620">Well, you've just reduced the industry to, likely, 10 or so companies (and I'm probably being generous.) You've also entirely done away with the previously put forth solution of writers self-publishing. What's more, some of the companies closing up shop will likely be most of your favourites.That not only means fewer options for the customer, but fewer employment opportunities for freelancers. The latter isn't exactly going to drive up pay rates, either -- simple economics shows us that when there is a great supply of available workers but a reduced opportunity for work, the price the writers can demand of the publishers will drop dramatically.No, it IS that simple. It's a simple matter of mathematics and economics.The fact that the math is unfortunate and not favourable does not make the situation any more complex. How much money people can afford to pay other people is not reliant upon the whims of philosophy or opinions. There's an actual point that's crossed where one goes from "okay, my expenses are low enough that I'm making money" and becomes "well, my expenses are high enough that I'm not making money or am actually losing it." No freelancer's opinion about their worth will change that absolute.You may want to consider that there are very practical reasons why minimum wage doesn't apply to work-for-hire employment scenarios like freelance writing.</blockquote>

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