Question: Hiring Quality Freelancers

Does anybody else find it difficult to hire quality freelancers? Like videographers are either the cost of a full agency, or if they're reasonably priced you have to worry about if they're going to show up or not. Any reasonable solutions out there?

blame the platforms; there's a lot of great talent out there; hyper-capitalism based on greed is what has surfaced poor quality...

I've done concept edits on my phone and when I had a Mac;

I would charge crypto or western union:

email at: vtcxyz[.]prototypes[ @ ]outlook[.]com

https://odysee.com/@vvsfx.space:e?view=content

22USD/hr is my rate