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Re:The Challenges of Being in the New Contract Workforce by lovich on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @08:32PM (#16219595)
Coordinating activities is different from happening to act the same way.

the act of uniting is literally antithetical to being independent. I can't even understand why you would ask that question. Why can't red be blue, makes about as much sense as asking why independent people couldn't unite and still be independent

Re:The Challenges of Being in the New Contract Workforce by ttoinou on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @12:15AM (#16220509)
I'm sorry English is not my mother tongue, does unite mean to syndicate oneself ?
Re:The Challenges of Being in the New Contract Workforce by lovich on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @12:41AM (#16220590)
Unite means to join together. You could say you united two pieces of Lego when you snap them together, or when people join in a group it can be called uniting them. The USA is the United States of America because the different states joined together into one nation.

My apologies if there was a misunderstanding over language. Your English is good enough that I had assumed you were a native speaker

Re:The Challenges of Being in the New Contract Workforce by ttoinou on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @11:05AM (#16223731)
Ok that's what I wanted to say. We are all voluntarily united by the same brand of smartphone we buy, why not the same for a healthcare / others benefits groups ?

I gave an example. There could be a franchise of co-working space / hotels / resorts all over the world for nomadic or independent people and they would do the bargaining for their clients.