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And you think that's why this exists? Currently you see a lot of clips on Youtube and ... complaining about taxes. At first I thought ... it's one of those campaigns (ie. Elon Musk is definitely pushing the idea on twitter). But not entirely. It's not some rich guy complaining, or an accountant offering their (paid) help or some extremely bad advice, but "influencers". Same with talking to Uber drivers.

I've realized the underlying issue is not demonization. The underlying issue is that the tax levels in a number of states make it impossible for quite a large number of individuals to have these "jobs", in a lot of cases when they can't (or more likely: won't) do other jobs, and their conclusion is "tax is forcing me onto welfare".

And with European taxes that apparently punish freelancers it's even worse. This is less true that it appears, European states just hide taxes by making employers pay them and having laws that forbid employers from including them on the payslips, but freelancers of course pay both the employer and employee taxes, because otherwise companies would make everyone work as freelancer. Now I'm 100% sure that this was indeed an attempt by states to hide taxes and it's backfiring a bit in this way. If you take this calculation into account, French income tax can be up to 68% (WTF ... of course, that's if you're making a million per year or so. Even a senior in IT in France would only pay maybe 55%)

And I guess it's not entirely untrue that people are being forced out of jobs because of these taxes ... but. Well, I'm not sure what to think about this.