I'm a person who would like to do some work for Bitcoin, so I monitor freelancing sites occasionally, and at this time I feel like the freelance market in Bitcoin is nearly dead. The Services board is 99% listings of services rather than people who are looking to buy some; XBTfreelancer is empty or has 1-2 projects most of the time; cryptogrind has mostly just ridiculously underpaid projects or again service announcements (shouldn't they be banned there?), and there's also not much available projects overall; workingforbitcoins has very little traffic, just a few projects per month.
It was theorized that Bitcoin will help alleviate poverty by allowing people to work online without any restrictions, but on practice this just isn't happening. In your opinion, what is the reason for this?
I don't think it is totally dead you can check the service section, it has a lot of freelancers that offer various works in exchange for Bitcoin, and we have many signature promoter who gets paid in Bitcoin by promoting various projects like gambling, mixer and exchanges, it's not totally dead, we just lack one big marketplace like Fiverr, that will housed every Bitcoin related freelancers.