[freeone3000]

Because if they're doing the job an FTE does, they should be full-time from the start. Otherwise, a company could be doing software development or food delivery or whatever and have no employees at all, merely having them all be "independent" "contractors" with very few legal protections.

[izacus]

You just invented Uber. Congratulations, you're rich!

[twiddling]

That's the dream