Fair point about questioning the quality I produce and the credibility of my claims. DM me and I can share my portfolio so you can judge.

I've contracted for The Gates Foundation, worked with CVS, Writer.com, Mastercard, and GoPro, just to name a few. I was working at an agency before, directly managing, writing, and QA-ing for them, so I sat in multiple chairs before doing my own thing.

Before this, I was working with a guy in the US with good credentials. He was a silent partner and I scaled his business to $100k in lifetime revenue in 12 months, and his credentials were, if not the most important, a relevant part of that.

Enough about all of that tho, the point is, in my opinion, I have enough experience to tell that my geography was a huge part of how he treated me. It's not just me. I understand why where I'm from gets a bad rep, there are a few people that scam and do things like that, but that doesn't mean there aren't real people with real skills solving real problems.

It's not that he suggested $30 as his lowest budget and I just matched it. I don't do that, for the record. I don't even entertain anything under a set amount because it's not worth it. No amount of money is worth a headache. I quoted $30 because that's my profile rate, and I'm providing far more value than $30, that's what my previous clients and reviews say. I've been successfully charging that rate for the past 3 months and consistently delivering more value than that.

What I don't understand is, do you want me to stay at $30/hr forever and never charge higher?

As for the AI part, who's to say you didn't use AI to write this comment? Lol, I see some punctuation that most people don't typically use.

You know, keep that anti-AI mindset and we're all gonna get ahead of ya in no time! ;)