Almost every first world country has them: A legion of newly minted companies with just one person active in the company. They’re called 1099’ers, ZZPers, Freie Dienstnehmer and so on depending on the location but other than that the situations are quite comparable. For many of these newly minted independent contractors their decision to go that route was born out of necessity rather than a choice made freely. One day they showed up at work, decided what to have for lunch that day and bef...
