Well, there are a few things here :) It doesn't make a bit of difference that someone in India is charging $10 an hour for their work - what I do is of enough quality, and with enough talent that I get all the work I desire - so untill and unless it starts being a problem for me they are welcome to give it away for free :) When someone puts out the quality product to compete with say, Anton's hair, then I am sure this will become an issue - but yet... nothing of the type has shown up for significantly less. Also... telecommuting and the internet hasn't hurt the high quality, high price firm at all in many ways. The reality is that the Internet has given more people the exposure to what truly high quality work is all about - and they are willing to pay the price. It is easy to say that there is always someone who can do it cheaper, with the same quality - yet this is simply not >always< true as a practical reality. So... is ther global competition? Sure. Are there people out there who charge $10 an hour in bids for work I charge $100 for? You. I see them all the time. Yet... even in that market I keep getting work at my rate. And that tells me that what I am doing is not so easily replaced. If I was stamping out bricks from a mold - then pure price matters. But this type of work... design, programming, 3D building is a talent issue in many cases. I am NOT interchangable with the $10 an hour people... my skillset and my style make me unique. They may go with the other guy - I lose contracts all the time. But if it was a simple as "someone charging $10 an hour" then I would never get any contracts - and that simply isn't true. So... as long as that hair keeps flying off the Daz 'shelves' the theory of the $10 an hour poser developer doesn't seem to be having much impact :)