One possible way to handle this is to decouple social insurance from employment, so companies can hire and fire at will and aren't required to provide social su

One possible way to handle this is to decouple social insurance from employment, so companies can hire and fire at will and aren't required to provide social support, but the state directly provides income security and social support to its citizens, to smooth out the resulting fluctuations (essentially socializing some of the variance/risk produced by a flexible labor market). In Denmark this policy is broadly called "flexicurity": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicurity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicurity I think in the medium term this is a more stable approach, since it brings in contract work within the aegis of the social-support system, rather than fighting a rearguard action to defend social support bundled into full-time employment, against contract work without social support.