Kind of makes sense if you look at it as "(collective) self employment", in so far as minimum wages don't apply to self-employed and so on. Then you get to thi

Kind of makes sense if you look at it as "(collective) self employment", in so far as minimum wages don't apply to self-employed and so on. Then you get to this parallel in laissez faire market economy, where low end service jobs are routinely undercut using single-client subcontractors who are self-employed only in name. Interesting to see how very different paths can lead to very similar results.