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> having your stuff on Youtube isn't a thing you should count on Sure, and having an at-will employment contract, which is what almost all YC companies offer,
by _delirium 9y ago
> having your stuff on Youtube isn't a thing you should count on
Sure, and having an at-will employment contract, which is what almost all YC companies offer, isn't something you should count on either. So I fail to comprehend your attempt to distinguish.
- jacquesm 9y agoAn employer does not provide a service for their employees, it's the other way around. Youtube provides a service to its users. That you can get paid for that is optional, that the service even functions is optional. So the service-provider service-consumer relationship is inverted.
- _delirium 9y agoWell, that's at least not the relationship that YouTube claims between itself and the content providers that it has chosen to hire commercially. YouTube's official position is that it has retained them as independent contractors and paid them in a manner reportable on a 1099 because they provide a bona-fide service to the company. YouTube files legal documents both to the IRS and to their shareholders that claim this under penalty of perjury.