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Originally Posted by konidias
You don't have to be professional to do professional quality work. You can make gourmet meals as a hobby that might even blow away professional chefs... it doesn't mean you have to get paid to do it.
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True, but if they had that level of skill, chances are they would not be producing meals for everyone for free on a daily basis, except of course if it was their family, but that's getting pretty far from my point, which is hobby level skill is what we're dealing with here.
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Originally Posted by konidias
Just because it's a hobby doesn't mean that quality doesn't matter. When people make model airplanes for a hobby, you have some people who can only do the basics and some people that make such amazing models that they should be on display in a museum. Yet they both get paid nothing to do it.
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Yeah, and they produce these models for their own pleasure, on their own terms, and in their own time. I'm sure if anyone started requesting them to make models for them, they'd want some sort of compenstation for their time.
My overall point remains. You're not going to be able to make people work for you for any long period of time, and produce "professional" quality work without paying them.
If someone is that good, they will either produce stuff on their own terms for their own enjoyment (Kaimetsu, anyone?), they will head their own project, or they will want compensation for their work, and in all reality they have every right to.