Nobody except themselves. To be Lik I would guess you need enormous self-confidence, marketing skills, business acumen, energy and, no doubt, a fair amount of luck. Not many have that mix.

"I never imagined that Shutterstock would provide people in emerging economies with the opportunity to earn a decent living."

A lot of small bloggers will not be able to afford the new prices and the sales volume will drop for those contributors who stayed with the agency..
The small bloggers will lose their audience, and the ripple effect will continue, The advertiser revenue will drop, and so on.

Giving loans to people who can't afford them is what caused the collapse, and if that's the way it's going again. I'm with you. Danger ahead.

The trouble with capitalism (and I speak as a perplexed capitalist) is that the logic of it sucks wealth from the poor to the rich and it has no vision that extends beyond next year's shareholder report. So it fails to meet the needs of a large underclass and it fails to meet the needs of future generations. However, nothing can compete with it as long as humanity lives by the capitalist paradigm that the acquisition of wealth is good. It's funny to hear the politicians in the UK election making their pitch: Labour says the Conservatives will take money and services from people but Labour will give people money and services, the Conservatives say Labour will take money from people and ruin services but they will make people richer and protect services. Both in their own way are believers in the mantra that Greed is Good, and they appeal to the greed of the electorate.
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Wasn't a major reason for the housing crisis a rise in interest rates which made affordable mortgages unaffordable? With UK interest rates at rock bottom, a return to a normal BoE base rate of 5% or 6% might double interest repayments for some people and drive them to the wall. Then, I suppose, we will say they bought houses they couldn't afford.

H1B salaries to check... just type company name

Here is Google - http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=GOOGLE+INC&job=

You forget that, what you want, has been tried for 50 years in Eastern Europe,  with disastrous social consequences. You forget that systems where some "elite" tried to fight the market forces failed miserably.
Before '89, East Germany was way behind West Germany, despite being populated by the same Germans. Look at South an North Korea. Same people, two systems. There is no need to highlight, which one belives that rules and regulations, instead if market forces, will bring prosperity (instead of inequality driven by greedy capitalists )

You want more government control,  more artificial rules, laws and regulations? You don't have to be Nostradamus, to imagine where it will end. Just look at North Korea. History can easily repeat itself.

so where are you living??? a long time ago Enoch Powell had the same spite for immigrants
in Britain but no one in England wanted to work instead of collecting social assistance. The brown immigrant flooded England to work as garbage collectors, WC cleaners and maintenance,etc
Powell was pissedoff because they brown the white society.
these days, we also have low-paid immigrants like you call them coming from latin-am, eastern europe, etc
seems like everyone dislike the idea of immigrants. we forget sometimes that the first immigrants came to USA as cheap labor too, to build the railroad and they too were looked down upon by the settlers.
but before the settlers came, the land was actually already occupied by the native.
in india and other colonies, the same thing was happening when the cocky brits and spanish and portuguese considered themselves as the founder of the land long occupied by natives.

so, cut the crap about low paid immigrants flooding the nation.
to USA

Its not Nike asking for photos. The people who are submitting this brief might have gotten a $10K budget and are just making a bundle of the back of photographers. The shots people take for 38 cents are seriously high quality. And now someone offers 250$ and you are ALL slating the photographers and the designers. Make up your minds.

This was shot for 38 cents. I really dont get the upset over 250$

But UK unemployment is now around the lowest it has been in the last 30 years. http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z8o7pt6rd5uqa6_&met_y=unemployment_rate&idim=country:uk:de&hl=en&dl=en#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=unemployment_rate&fdim_y=seasonality:sa&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country_group&idim=country:uk&ifdim=country_group&hl=en_US&dl=en&ind=false

As for the welfare state, it wasn't created out of a fear of the USSR it was the first Labour government that set it up, in line with its socialist beliefs. It's being eroded because politicians believe it costs too much and is not efficiently targeted, not because the USSR vanished a generation ago.

At the bottom end employers will pay as little as possible.  If left to market forces we will have what we have had in the past, which was basically slavery and/or people working under horrible conditions.

cleaning the house using materials such as vinegar, lemon juice and bicarb and dusting with cast-off [but thoroughly boiled] underwear). And I know people who were made to hide behind the couch some weeks when the rent-collector or the tallyman called in the late 50s, so there were plenty of families struggling to get by.