The author has a point, but she has it exactly backwards. While yes, I would like more goodies, (wouldn't we all?) the real problem is that all the laws are ma

The author has a point, but she has it exactly backwards. While yes, I would like more goodies, (wouldn't we all?) the real problem is that all the laws are made with the assumption that folks are working a 9-5 job. Stuff like deductible health insurance, unemployment insurance, or whatever the latest definition of rich or poor is. All these laws and policies are made with the assumption that folks fit inside these little boxes called "workers". In a highly-fluid economy, for a large segment of the population just doesn't work like that. The abstraction is so leaky tens of millions of folks are falling out. For years and years I've heard politicians of all parties talk about doing this, that, or the other with jobs, but nobody seems to have figured out that their definitions from the 1930s just don't apply to the world we live in any more. So from where I sit, if you could simply fix the regulatory nightmare that freelancing and small self-employed folks face, it would be great. Fix the bugs. No new features needed.