Re:Freelance Isn't Free Act Passes in NYC
by xiaoma on Thursday November 24, 2016 @10:00AM
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As you may or may not be aware, decreasing rates of labor participation in the US have pushed many who cannot secure full-time work to seek freelancing gigs in order to avoid starving and/or homelessness.
Saying "they are not in a position to conduct freelancing" doesn't make the problem go away. If it did, US construction, fruit picking, home cleaning and other manual labor industries could be reorganized with a single utterance.
Re:Freelance Isn't Free Act Passes in NYC
by dozzie on Thursday November 24, 2016 @10:45AM
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Apparently you talk about a thing different from what everybody else in this
thread call a "freelancer".
Re:Freelance Isn't Free Act Passes in NYC
by xiaoma on Friday November 25, 2016 @05:59AM
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If you read the article, you'll see there are 55 million Americans freelancing. Surely you don't think all of those people are highly paid designers or engineers like those visiting Rackspace in the video! Yes, a few fit that demographic, but it's a small group.
On the whole, freelancers are more likely to be drivers or home cleaners than tech workers.
Then they are not in a position to conduct freelancing and they risk starving and/or getting homeless.
A freelancer usually cannot assume stable 40 hours per week for four weeks per month. He/she has to have a money buffer that allows to live for weeks without additional income. $1250 is not an expense too big to be covered by this buffer.