3 ms·

Many of these protections and benefits that "traditional" employees have, unemployment insurance, we don't actually need. Why do you need to insure against the

Many of these protections and benefits that "traditional" employees have, unemployment insurance, we don't actually need. Why do you need to insure against the possibility that you may fail to get work? Is this not what savings are for? Health insurance in traditional employment is subsidized and this should end. along with the distortions it creates. But seriously, protect me from discrimination? How the hell would you do that? Companies may discriminate against workers but no one protects companies from arbitrary crap like that. Either you have a good reputation and offer value or you don't. How does the writer propose to micromanage these relationships? Will we all have to explain why we change babysitters in the future? Part of the reason you can make more when you crawl out of the quicksand of corporate America is because you're free of a lot of crap imposed on traditional employers.

tomjen3 16y ago
You raise reasonable objections, and in a rational discourse it your objections are extreemly prudent. But if we are to solve the few real problems that freelancers face (not getting paid, getting sticked by the government on health care, etc) it helps to have a few things that you are willing to give up in order to reach a compromise.
- stretchwithme 16y ago
  so in the face of the 2 injustices you mention, you suggest that we give up more rather than try to correct the injustices. then I guess to extract further things from us, all someone need do is come up with some new injustice actually, the two problems you mention are not that big a deal. you can already deduct money spent on health insurance and if you're healthy, you'll probably spend less than an employer would have to pay for your insurance. When you're independent, you don't subsidize the expensive health issues and pregnancies of others. and we have the legal system to deal with people who don't pay their bills and ways of screening them out to begin. why do I need more costly intervention from the government?

tomjen3 16y ago

You raise reasonable objections, and in a rational discourse it your objections are extreemly prudent. But if we are to solve the few real problems that freelancers face (not getting paid, getting sticked by the government on health care, etc) it helps to have a few things that you are willing to give up in order to reach a compromise.

stretchwithme 16y ago
so in the face of the 2 injustices you mention, you suggest that we give up more rather than try to correct the injustices. then I guess to extract further things from us, all someone need do is come up with some new injustice actually, the two problems you mention are not that big a deal. you can already deduct money spent on health insurance and if you're healthy, you'll probably spend less than an employer would have to pay for your insurance. When you're independent, you don't subsidize the expensive health issues and pregnancies of others. and we have the legal system to deal with people who don't pay their bills and ways of screening them out to begin. why do I need more costly intervention from the government?