from large bounties on even larger projects to small bounties for small projects- posted by people, not foundations.

There is a generation of users that would love to see more functionality in their computer, but have no idea how to cause that to occur... this same generation understands that they go to google to find things, ebay to sell things, amazon to buy things, etc.

Why not give them one place to go to make things work?

Bounty coders could become the handymen of the information age -- if the place for posting a bounty is easy enough to find for non-technocrats.

This is not an occupation - for that you want 'freelance coder' - this is a market for odd-jobs. Incidentally, I tried to get one of these things started - http://www.bountycoder.org/ - but, well, it hasn't exactly jumped off the line...