[throw63738]

In my experience corporations and employment are for "socialising profits". As skilled developer I can make good money on my own. In employment I have to sponsor admin stuff, less productive coworkers, shareholders...

Corporations are basically form of social welfare for most people. In past there were less unproductive people attached.

I don't buy risk being shifted. Housing or gold is very conservative investment, and it had good returns.

[vineyardmike]

> Corporations are basically form of social welfare for most people. In past there were less unproductive people attached.

Very true! Unfortunately, those people were almost literally left in the dirt, so of course we wanted society to provide them welfare... and we have all the issues of socialism and free riders. We need to separate welfare of people (which is natural to have free riders, but also necessary cost of a society to maintain itself) and employment/corps who shouldn't be filling the job of welfare providers.

[maerF0x0]

this kinda reminds me of the BS Jobs book[1]. People have been given bullshit jobs as we ran out of need for them in the workforce because America is having a hard time figuring out a way to give those people purpose and economic resources in the absence of a "job".

[1] Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber