Consume Product

I try to explain this to the kids: working for someone else is *much* easier than working for yourself.

First, there's the obvious factors of not having to sell/advertise, deal with supplies, insurance, licencing, rent, and you get paid even when things get slow.

You also get training, for free, in skills that are, by necessity, useful in the real world. I tell anyone that will listen: don't go to school. Intern and prove yourself; if you're lucky, they'll pay to send you to school, but even if not you still learn, for free, things that other employers will want.

Taxes are a cinch working for someone (rather than dealing with deductions, receipts, sales tax etc), and, frankly, a lot of young people just don't have the discipline to get up and work everyday without someone standing over them with a whip. On top of that, you have almost no liability working for someone else. When I was young, another guy and I were on a job and we made a mistake that cost the company ten grand to fix. Yeah, we got a dressing down, but neither of us even got fired, let alone had to pay for it like we would have if it were our company.

I currently self-employed, and I love it, but the responsibility is *all* on me, from finding jobs, to doing them properly, to safety, to not damaging customer property. It's not for everyone, especially not diploma mill dropouts with delusions of competence.

Depends on the industry. I've been let go with no notice or warning on a w2 position because the upstream contract went away.

That's a great point if you're a liberal who lives in his own hippie pacifist fantasy world.

In the real world the capital investment of the employer is defended by the bodies of the men of the whole nation.

Every liberal theory fails due to the existence of war.