[marcosdumay]

Yes. Every type of employment puts undocumented costs at the employees.

But not all types of employment puts the same amount of costs. Those vary widely. And the possibility for the employee to optimize them also varies.

And all the comments up to now are still ignoring the elephant on the room and didn't touch the opportunity cost of having your entire family work on the same geographic area, and the insane housing costs on the few small areas where a family can do that.