I was doing a Google search and came across this in the results…which, of course, had nothing at all to do with the subject of my search, but, hey, you know search engines!
[A self-employed person has] “no guarantee of either a steady income or work, no company-provided life insurance and health benefits, no company stock options, bonuses, profit-sharing plans, or pension plans, and no paid vacations, sick days, or maternity leave. …Self-employed people…must assume all responsibility for providing all these things for themselves, as well as paying self-employment taxes (because self-employed persons do not have employers contributing to social security, they must pay a higher amount into social security than non-self-employed people do).”
Employees have a guarantee of steady income or work? Employees have company-provided life insurance and all the rest the author mentions? Not in the U.S. I live in.
The only thing I can figure here is that this author must have written this somewhere circa the late 20th century before all the things mentioned became more and more obsolete for most U.S. employees. Today, U.S. employees have no guarantee of steady jobs, much less all the perks the author mentions. Take a check of the latest (and ongoing for the last few decades) job layoffs in America, and, for those with jobs, if any of the perks mentioned are offered, much less all of them, it’s usually because the employee is paying for them out of their paycheck.
Just a chuckle.
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