Bottom line is the bottom line. A small percentage of subscribers get work on a regular basis on these sites -- you need only read the names listed on Voices home page (which 123 doesn't do, Lee) to know who's been newly hired and paid by Surepay, and those names seem to recur. I am sure that is the case elsewhere as well, as evidenced by the staunch supporters of these sites who defend them. Some are quite happy with them. For whatever the reasons -- that's a whole other topic.
Simply put, the rest of us are simply subsidizing those few. If everyone who does not get regular work at these sites happily left, along with our contributions, subscription rates for those happily remaining would surely have to rise. It seems to me that's just the nature of the P2P business as it has evolved.
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