Cheap editors are wrecking rates. Also I literally used to be one, so idk

Need to vent but I'm also kind of arguing with myself here.

Every week there's a post offering like $15 for a full edit and 30 people line up for it. And yeah, it kills the floor for everyone — clients see that and suddenly $150 for the same scope is "way too expensive."

But then i remember starting out at $10/hr because nobody was gonna pay an unknown with no portfolio real money. those garbage rates got me the reel that got me actual clients. so was i "destroying the market" back then, or just broke and new?

I don't have a clean answer. mad at the lowballers, was the lowballer.