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> What does ["Fuck You, Pay Me" talk] have to do with the fact that many, many freelancers don't have $1250 to spend? Then they are not in a position to conduc
by dozzie 10y ago
> What does ["Fuck You, Pay Me" talk] have to do with the fact that many, many freelancers don't have $1250 to spend?
Then they are not in a position to conduct freelancing and they risk starving
and/or getting homeless.
A freelancer usually cannot assume stable 40 hours per week for four weeks per
month. He/she has to have a money buffer that allows to live for weeks
without additional income. $1250 is not an expense too big to be covered by
this buffer.
- xiaoma 10y agoAs you may or may not be aware, decreasing rates of labor participation in the US have pushed many who cannot secure full-time work to seek freelancing gigs in order to avoid starving and/or homelessness. Saying "they are not in a position to conduct freelancing" doesn't make the problem go away. If it did, US construction, fruit picking, home cleaning and other manual labor industries could be reorganized with a single utterance.
- dozzie 10y agoApparently you talk about a thing different from what everybody else in this thread call a "freelancer".
- xiaoma 10y agoIf you read the article, you'll see there are 55 million Americans freelancing. Surely you don't think all of those people are highly paid designers or engineers like those visiting Rackspace in the video! Yes, a few fit that demographic, but it's a small group. On the whole, freelancers are more likely to be drivers or home cleaners than tech workers.