Why do most new freelancers always take low paid tasks?

[Btaliat]

There are many reasons why new freelancers finding themselves taking low paid tasks. Most of the times, it is because there is nobody to trust them with good paid tasks because they are new. This do discourage most new freelancers. Sometimes, it may because they only want to use such tasks as practice until they will start getting the right task. Unfortunately for some people, they are always stuck in this. What do you have to say about this?