> I used to work in direct sales, aka multi level marketing. They too called the people there "entrepreneurs". Those very people your describing as "entrepreneu

> I used to work in direct sales, aka multi level marketing. They too called the people there "entrepreneurs". Those very people your describing as "entrepreneurs" have been suing Uber for missing money. When confronted by one of these drivers about money Kalanick embarrassed himself. It is a gig, barely a job and not "entrepreneurial" Yup. Telling grunts that they're "entrepreneurs" as an excuse to not pay them is a very old scam. Back in 2010-2011, I was unemployed, and I was constantly getting messages (mostly via CareerBuilder) from life insurance companies saying they had sales positions for me. They sounded sketchy, largely because they were all hitting me up when I had no sales background whatsoever, so I looked some of them up. The reports were... not pleasant. Ripoff Report was full of complaints about these companies [0]. Some examples: - You had to pay to receive training. - You are expected to drive around to lots of places as part of your job, at your expense. - You are legally classified as a franchise, so they don't have to pay you like an employee. - Compensation is 100% commission, plus the money you make by recruiting other people (pyramid scheme much?). - People complained that their job largely consisted of repeatedly harassing unionized companies who went with the life insurance provider associated with their union. They were ordered to attempt union busting as part of their job. - Sales goals were set up to be impossible to meet, you are given no support whatsoever to help you reach your goals, and the people above you in the pyramid would frequently berate you, call you an idiot, and tell you that you're a hopelessly terrible salesman. Oh, and here's the real kicker: once they got wind of people using Ripoff Report to complain, they would astroturf fake reviews. The reviews are often striped: every negative review is immediately followed by a positive review accusing the previous reviewer of having a personal vendetta against the company because they sucked at being an entrepreneur and didn't know how to grow their own business and said that they were just jealous of all the successful entrepreneurs the company has grown. [0] Here's one of them: http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/liberty-national-life-insurance-company-review-commitment-to-customer-satisfaction-affordable-life-and-supplemental-health-insurance-through-in-home-and-workplace-sales/birmingham-alabama/liberty-national-life-insurance-company-liberty-national-birmingham-alabama-219217 http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/liberty-national-life-in...