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"To be clear, we don’t provide healthcare. Everyone who works at Gumroad is responsible for their own healthcare and benefits. Everyone also pays for their own phone, laptop, internet connection, and all the other things they need."

It seems to me that company operates like Uber or Lyft, and their product is exploiting wage inequalities.

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At least two people who work there commented, both earning 10k/month. A lot of things come to mind, but wage inequality and explication are not among them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25675002

I would agree broadly but “normal” salary contracts are burdened by heavy taxation in most countries. A contractor could pay really good private healthcare, build a pension fund, insure for disability and a bunch of other things and still net a lot more than a salary net for the same role. I don’t like it but it’s what it is and paying public pension for something you’ll never see is also not fun.

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