Contracting and consulting is a legal/economic framework for shifting the risk/reward ratio from the entity purchasing services to the entity providing the services.

It does nothing to change the market of service purchasers in any way. As such, if you had problems as an employee with the pool of service purchasers, you're going to have those same problems as a vendor of services.

> Although [starting a business] is not easy with all the legal barriers to entry created by well-intentioned regulators like yourself :)

Because that's the hard part of a successful business?