This Time Magazine story is an example of making readers less educated because it focuses on specific example of subcontractors who don't work for one specific

This Time Magazine story is an example of making readers less educated because it focuses on specific example of subcontractors who don't work for one specific company. And it drives that One Specific Example home with a human-interest angle on Ned McNally of Omaha at one specific company such as Google. Another previous one-off story with subcontractor Shannon Wait and Google datacenter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26874211 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26874211 Another previous one-off about subcontractors working for Apple: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19133586 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19133586 Instead, this is the generalized template to understand : Many workers at $BIGCO are actually subcontractors. From that general outline, journalists keep re-generating specific one-off stories. Instead, journalists could help readers understand that there have always been subcontractors (and often treated as 2nd-class) working for the more well-known brand name company. Before tech giants like Google/Apple/Microsoft to act as the "bad guy" hiring subcontractors, there were newspapers. A lot of journalists/photographers "worked for" the newspaper but they weren't really staff employees. Instead, they were freelance journalists/photographers aka subcontractors. And at universities, you have adjunct professors ("subcontractors" even with a W-2) instead of tenured professors. These "invisible" subcontractors are everywhere. At Costco, the workers handing out free food samples are not Costco employees. They work for CDS. (https://clubdemo.com/ https://clubdemo.com/) Likewise, CDS employees don't get the same benefits as true Costco employees.