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Crowdsourcing is amazing in so many ways. It's not only a great opportunity for amateurs to finally get credited for their outstanding wit and creativity but it's a great, resourceful option for companies alike. I have never been in favor of outsourcing because it lowers the prices of goods and services but at others' expense and that's not right.
Benefits of Crowdsourcing
What happens with crowdsourcing however, is quite the opposite. It elects those interested and competent to perform work that not only do they love and feel passionate about, but that they excel in also. Crowdsourcing encourages creative input, opportunity and a fair use of others' work through credit, recognition and acknowledgment, paid or not.
Crowdsourcing VS. Outsourcing
Crowdsourcing also allows for the price of goods and services to decrease because the cost of labour is significantly reduced but it doesn't do so by infringing upon others' rights to fair pay, good working conditions, sanitary work environment as well as safe working practices which outsourcing has been known to cause.
Crowdsourcing also avoids the problem of respecting culture. Outsourcing became a known problem in countries like India, where traditional customs and lifestyles were being jeopardized by the US business model which is not coherent with Indian values thus lowering their quality of life and creating domestic upheaval.
Another amazing aspect of crowdsourcing is that it's available to everyone! Yes, outsourcing creates job opportunity in areas where job opportunities are relatively nonexistent but on the other hand, with crowdsourcing, the same opportunities are available only to a much wider range of people.
Another benefit is that while outsourcing creates jobs it also takes jobs away but with crowdsourcing anyone from anywhere can participate and contribute, the Internet has no boundaries, no borders, it cannot discriminate.
A Step in the Right Direction
That's the great thing about the Internet and it's development, more and more people are getting opportunities to share, sell and develop platforms for their creative property all while contributing to the overall performance of the worldwide economy and thus aiding in the reduction of costs for goods and services in all business domains and industries.
It's an exciting future and crowdsourcing is just another way of utilizing all that the Internet has to offer, now it's up to us to keep making the worldwide web a more efficient, money saving tool and job creating avenue.
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