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<blockquote data-quote="vvvvvvv" data-source="post: 2179413" data-attributes="member: 5151"><p>I think you missed the point (none of those things come from the government - once you resign yourself into believing that they do, you've abandoned the very principles America was founded on), but a couple of things stood out...</p><p></p><p>The government says I can't choose when or how I live or die. The government has many obscure "rules" that lack victims that will land you in jail. The government does not let me vote for those I would like to vote for, nor does it allow them to participate in the political process even if they were to get elected. The government also discriminates by gender by not allowing an adult woman to name another adult woman (or an adult man to name another adult man) as their legal dependent and next of kin.</p><p></p><p>How did government make it possible to fund a business? Some of us bootstrap our businesses without any grants or loans to tie our hands and hold us down....</p><p></p><p>I'm pretty sure Jose sells himself cheaper than me. Meanwhile, I'm booked up for over 6 months in advance and have been like that for well over a year. I end the conversation pretty fast if one of the first questions someone asks me about my labor is "how much". That tells me they see no value in their own business, and they also tend to be the same folks that call and say "I want this Facebook-like site - that's around $1500, right?". Over 80% of the people I've been contacted by are already "sold" on my work via referrals before they even hit me up. Out of those, I have a 90% closure rate - with the other 10% being timeline issues. Too bad I can't find anyone competent that needs a job in Oklahoma to get rid of those timeline issues - side effect of working in a high-demand low-supply industry. If you want a cookie-cutter site (which most sites are), I can refer you to other people (but then again, I can roll those out in a couple-three hours). I do "edge case" work, API integrations, unique business process integrations, and massive data migrations. You know, the fun stuff that most of the cheaper folks can't get right the first time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vvvvvvv, post: 2179413, member: 5151"] I think you missed the point (none of those things come from the government - once you resign yourself into believing that they do, you've abandoned the very principles America was founded on), but a couple of things stood out... The government says I can't choose when or how I live or die. The government has many obscure "rules" that lack victims that will land you in jail. The government does not let me vote for those I would like to vote for, nor does it allow them to participate in the political process even if they were to get elected. The government also discriminates by gender by not allowing an adult woman to name another adult woman (or an adult man to name another adult man) as their legal dependent and next of kin. How did government make it possible to fund a business? Some of us bootstrap our businesses without any grants or loans to tie our hands and hold us down.... I'm pretty sure Jose sells himself cheaper than me. Meanwhile, I'm booked up for over 6 months in advance and have been like that for well over a year. I end the conversation pretty fast if one of the first questions someone asks me about my labor is "how much". That tells me they see no value in their own business, and they also tend to be the same folks that call and say "I want this Facebook-like site - that's around $1500, right?". Over 80% of the people I've been contacted by are already "sold" on my work via referrals before they even hit me up. Out of those, I have a 90% closure rate - with the other 10% being timeline issues. Too bad I can't find anyone competent that needs a job in Oklahoma to get rid of those timeline issues - side effect of working in a high-demand low-supply industry. If you want a cookie-cutter site (which most sites are), I can refer you to other people (but then again, I can roll those out in a couple-three hours). I do "edge case" work, API integrations, unique business process integrations, and massive data migrations. You know, the fun stuff that most of the cheaper folks can't get right the first time. [/QUOTE]
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