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@harvey
That makes a lot of sense and thanks also for your post. IMHO the programmer gets cheated, even if he lives in Argentina. I was checking for the salaries here in Europe (where I'm based) and I can assure you, for that money it's even hard to find a junior developer, let alone an experienced one.
The biggest issue with all these companies is that you and me have to prove ourselves over and over again because they fuck up the market. Not only in terms of rates, but just giving coders/designers and the likes a bad reputation because they cant deliver what has been agreed on. AFAIK there is even a lot of caution mentioned in one of the GFY educational posts.
I'm in the process of moving from being an in-house developer with a decent fixed salary to a freelancer. I practically have to work for free to even get noticed. So for now I stopped that (I probably try again soon) because I really had to get some food on the table.
But listen, I understand that you have to start "low", even if you are already experienced. I would not mind to work for $10 to $15 per hour on a small project (one to two weeks) just to give the client confidence in my experience and such. But it has to come from both sides. But I do not get the impression that the OP had that in mind.
Anyway, "you get what you pay for" … sometimes
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