Re:Amazon to employees: Quit your job, we’ll help you start ...
by tathougies on Monday May 13, 2019 @04:28PM
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> In this case a real business in the sense that you're legally able to actually hire someone else out and have the margins to do so.
I think you mean a 'profitable' business then, because several large tech companies have no margins and rely on continued investment. An uber driver is certainly free to seek investment externally to continue to fund themselves presumably.
> You know plus or minus everything you can't do or a company can't pay you to do because it's illegal.
That's assumed, obviously. Just like freedom of religion does not mean you can kill people because your religion says so.
In this case a real business in the sense that you're legally able to actually hire someone else out and have the margins to do so. A lot of these 'sub contract' out your old job to you new business schemes have a lot of restrictions on what you can do and the company isn't going to be paying as much as it cost to employee you + the cost of running your vehicle (otherwise they wouldn't be saving money really). If you're a 'subcontractor but really you can't afford/can't contractually pay anyone else to do this' you're basically just an employee but paying your own taxes, health insurance, insurance, depreciation, and compliance risks.
> doing something for cash is an individual, legal right
You know plus or minus everything you can't do or a company can't pay you to do because it's illegal.