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Re:From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months by mgkimsal on Monday April 16, 2012 @09:10AM (#3847175)
"in my pretty ideal world the workers should have enough of those skills, or the ability to subcontract them."

They are subcontracting those skills out to the person who is marketing and getting them the jobs.

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Re:From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months by ricardobeat on Monday April 16, 2012 @10:20AM (#3847445)
At a very high cost (100% over their pay).
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Re:From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months by mgkimsal on Monday April 16, 2012 @11:58AM (#3847878)
In this particular case, probably. But that's an issue because the workers don't quite have a 'i run my own company' mentality (even if it's not a company).

I saw a comment here months ago that said something like "I treat myself as an independent contractor, I just sub out all the work like getting clients/projects, taxes, billing, collections, hr and management to other people (my company) so I can focus on development". I've liked that mentality, and try to get others to think that way. Even if you don't adopt it, it's an interesting perspective.

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