I guess it depends where you're living, and what opportunities you are aware of - or are available to you - and what your next best alternative is.
If you really need the money and don't have another option then working for a very modest quantity of money sure seems like a much better deal than working for none at all.
Also the unawareness happens in the other direction too.
I know a bunch of freelancers who get paid a ridiculous amount of money for simple web-dev stuff, just because the companies they work for don't know anything about this and are simply happy to have found a dev.
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I guess it depends where you're living, and what opportunities you are aware of - or are available to you - and what your next best alternative is.
If you really need the money and don't have another option then working for a very modest quantity of money sure seems like a much better deal than working for none at all.
Also the unawareness happens in the other direction too.
I know a bunch of freelancers who get paid a ridiculous amount of money for simple web-dev stuff, just because the companies they work for don't know anything about this and are simply happy to have found a dev.
That may well be the case but a dev should not trade his/her time at similar rates to other skills that didn't take much time/effort to learn..
dev skill isn't a common one, it takes a special kind of mindset to be a half decent dev...