I am not saying that there are no good programmers for $2 / hour , i am just saying that $2 / hour good programmer is getting ripped up , sometimes people outsource to $2 / hour programmers and make like $50 / hour just by connecting real client with programmer ... you find that fair ?
I agree with that it's a sort of arbitrage and many third parties are good at doing that, advanced web developers will not go lower than that amount, but we have brothers who are from third world country who are also good accepts that amount because they treat it as a sideline apart from their job in the office.
It would be more helpful if freelance sites would make low threshold for $/hour price of each profession.
However we're far far away from this and now we has to unite and start this off by ourselves