Great podcast, really useful ideas...too bad he promotes 99Design

I just started listening to this podcast and have gotten some great ideas from the few podcasts I've heard so far. The only problem I have with the podcast is it supports 99design. Fun? Spend days or a week creating free work and giving away your ideas to someone in the hopes of work is fun? I did this a few times, in the beginning as an illustrator, before I realized what a mistake this is. Artists, need I say never give your work away for free? Your time is valuable. Clients looking for cheap work, realize you are asking an actual human being to spend hours, perhaps days of their life trying to realize your idea. Would you give this much of your own time when the odds are 20 to 1 of simply getting paid? Probably not. So why would you ask someone else to do that? No getting around the fact that 99design is a total rip off. And just because it exists doesn't mean it's right.