The gig economy sucks for a simple reason: Owners are greedy. In the custom writing business, the typical model is for the company to retain 70% or more of the revenue, often paying writers as little as $0.30 on the dollar. At BridgeText, writers make 51% what the company does on every order. We’re the only writing company that pays writers more than what we make on a per-order basis.
The custom writing business is already full of companies that run like sweatshops, exploit writers, and exist solely to enable cheating customers rather than provide genuine example papers, or, where appropriate, fairly subcontracted or outsourced writing work. What enables BridgeText to provide the finest writing services is, first and foremost, our treatment of writers, both in terms of compensation and working conditions. We’d rather make less as a company in order to contribute to the kind of gig economy we’d like to see, one in which gig workers are fairly treated, appropriately paid, and respected.
Writing services will always exist, and, alas, will always be exploitable—whether by determined cheaters or greedy owners. Our preference at BridgeText is to try to improve the tenor of the outsourced writing business. We’re writers ourselves who love what we do and see for a place for it in a marketplace that, as we’re demonstrating, can hold itself to higher standards vis-à-vis both customers and writers.
