> Oh, I forgot, it's ridiculously easy to become a writer and sustain living from a podcast. Those ~400 000 people could've easily found a different job.

So the only choices anyone has in the US is to become a writer or an Uber driver? Does Uber have some type of monopoly on employment?

> However, the actual insane thing is this worldview that companies are not responsible for anything, and can do whatever they want;

I said that companies shouldn’t be able to do things that harm their employees - I never said that OSHA and safety standards shouldn’t exist. They also shouldn’t be able to do anything that hurts others. I even said that they should pay taxes to fund a safety net and to provide universal health care like every other civilized company.

> but to go and start supporting yourself with books and podcasts

No I said that the government shouldn’t get involved with creating an environment where adults can’t get into voluntarily contracts where they get to decide how much their labor is worth.

Even a cursory reading of whey I wrote would tell you I used Snell as an example of all of the contractors that wanted to do freelance who were harmed by a law meant to protect them but only created a nanny state that took away agency from adults who freely made a choice.

> and that there should be some magical government that provides some safety net

You mean the same type of safety net that every other industrialized company provides?