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What do you think happens when regular employees don't get paid by their employer (who also has more money and more resources than them)?

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At least in the United States, the government has the ability to and a history of stepping in for the employee to ensure they are reimbursed, and court cases _very frequently_ side with the employee.

You have significantly more protection as a full-time employee compared to freelancing.

Long before the govt steps in, people will have stopped working hundreds of hours a month for an organization that hasn't paid them.

... I don't think I'm seeing the point you're trying to make.

I'm saying that there is a massive power imbalance in freelancing that is not at all the same as the power imbalance with working a 9-to-5

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