Cheap Article Writers; Is This Trnd Here to Stay?
Educated and skilled article writers are becoming a rare breed in some areas of the writing market. The worry is that this will spread to other areas of the writing market. “Cheap article writers wanted” is an ad that you see all too often anymore on the Internet.
If you are an educated writer, than this type of work is not for you. This type of work is for writers that have little experience. That is what the pay rate is saying. You are lucky if you are paid one cent a word, which is usually not the norm in the world of the Internet and article writing. The pay is usually more like 1-2 dollars per 500 word article. This is a sad state of affairs for writers in general.
People will work for this rate because they have to compete for jobs with people who can afford to live off of these low wages. People from low economy countries who can live on a few dollars a day will take all the cheap article writing jobs that they can get. When you live in an industrialized nation where the economy is so expensive to live, it is not a fair wage.
It has been said that you get what you pay for, but in the world of Internet article writing this is not always so. Many very educated and talented writers work for pennies just so that they can compete with other writers that can afford to work for that type of pay. Many writers are from high poverty countries who can afford to get paid only 5-10 dollars a day. This is not a feasible pay rate for writers in the United States or Canada.
How can professional writers compete in that type of market? A few bucks for one well researched and written article of 500 words is not much. How many articles a day would you have to do in order to make a living? Would the quality be what you would like it to be? The answer is probably not. Rushed work usually is not of the best quality.
You have college educated writers that do Internet article writing on the side to supplement their income from whatever job that they may currently have. Some do it for the love of writing, others because they have no other outlet for this talent. Quality and skill should be paid for no matter the forum.
You would not find a doctor who would drop their pay rate to do surgery. Granted writing is not surgery, but the skills that a writer has are learned in college just like the surgeon. I would not want to pay a doctor based on quality of work, who would want a low quality doctor? Nobody would use one. Writers are however expendable in today’s world.
If you are a writer looking to get paid for your education and talent, you may want to look at serious publications and news papers that have not yet turned to the freelance market. Many businesses are also popping up offering cheap article writers. This does not bode well for the future income of writers.
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