Apparently you talk about a thing different from what everybody else in this thread call a "freelancer".

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.