I not only look upon myself as a sole-proprietor, I AM a sole-proprietor. Your decision can be superceded at any time by a hostile takeover. What then? Our decision in who we are able to sell our expertise to is becoming increasingly more limited by corporatism. Those corporations able to provide the most compensation to their employees will be those who act in the most ruthless fashion towards society as a whole. When just that isn't enough, they will turn inwards and become belligerent towards their own employees (outsourcing, downsizing, et c.).
I not only look upon myself as a sole-proprietor, I AM a sole-proprietor. Your decision can be superceded at any time by a hostile takeover. What then? Our decision in who we are able to sell our expertise to is becoming increasingly more limited by corporatism. Those corporations able to provide the most compensation to their employees will be those who act in the most ruthless fashion towards society as a whole. When just that isn't enough, they will turn inwards and become belligerent towards their own employees (outsourcing, downsizing, et c.).
I've actually met people I believe to be the future, or at least a part of it. Basically guys with highly specialized skill sets. They work in the arts and in high tech fields. They aren't company employees in the classic sense. They may work for as little as one day or as long as five years for one company before moving on to the next job. What is interesting is that they ping pong back and forth from seven or eight cities on the globe. One of these guys, I was shocked to learn, hasn't owned a landline for seven years. He just uses a cell phone.