I don't agree. What we have now are people being trained to not think like entrepreneurs and view the system as scary and risky. If everyone becomes entrepreneu

I don't agree. What we have now are people being trained to not think like entrepreneurs and view the system as scary and risky. If everyone becomes entrepreneurs, remove the social ostracization, and I think you'll find that everyone is suited for it. The mental overhead is different but not increased (obviously it's all up to the execution, and I don't really have proof for my opinion). I can see software, non-software services, and different cultural practices reduce the overhead of current contractor systems. Moreover it's naive to assume that the overhead involved in being a normal employee is any less than that of being a contractor. The office politics that most people have to deal with is asinine, and could benefit from the type of legal clarification that being a contractor would entail.