There is a battle between people that write the checks and those that earn the checks . I talked with one local guy a few months ago about doing a mobile project . I informed him that I was looking at the job market in SF Bay Area of California and showed him the fullstack app that I had written . He tried to play things off by saying the job market was mixed right now . He was saying this in a tone where he was putting it down . People with a BS have an unemployment rate in the 2 ' s , tech is even lower and demand is high . People asking for all this are just crazy , it ' s perfectly legal for them to ask , but we have to realize that WE control this market . There ' s a balance here and we have to stay in control of things . Let them ask for min wage workers with a MS in CS , biplatform , full stack and willing to work 80 hours a week for min wage . Let ' s see how many people are willing to show up . If their project doesn ' t warrant paying real devs , then their project should go straight to the scrap heap of apps that should never see the light of day .