AJLynn

I'm just going by my reading of Ernest's idea here, but I thought the idea was to raise the standard for pricing. We can already outsource anything we want to in a price-competitive market.

The point of this seems to be to make an organization that people can go to to get work done to a certain standard with a certain standard of service and a simple point of contact. Not just a job board. Without making this a way to have the price of work be the Western price, Westerners can't participate, because if the interface is consistent then why the heck would anybody pay $40/hour instead of $10? The challenge then becomes how to make the service have enough value that people would go to it instead of outsourcing. This then raises the standard of pricing, whereas your idea lowers it.

It wouldn't matter where the people doing the work were, but they'd be charging the $40.