Do you make minimum wage? Do you give any excess over minimum wage that you earn to charity? The vast majority of us posting here “make more when others are making less”. Even in your own company you probably make 10x more than the lowest paid contract worker who cleans your office after hours.
That’s the deal you make as a contract worker. Yes, I’ve been a contract worker. Heck, I have even left a full time job for contract to perm role before knowing that there was a chance I would be let go if the project I was hired to lead wasn’t successful even if through no fault of my own. I negotiated a premium because of that risk.
On the other hand, half the issue with being a contractor is that we as a country decided to tie health insurance, workers comp, and unemployment insurance to the company instead of making them universal and state run like every other industrialized country on earth.
