even though my above message wasn't much about the corporate leeches, i did experience the fun of being my own boss in a way during covid doing mini gigs directly with people

there's a blend of "i'm my own man": i get the money and handle the responsibility on my own and it's thrilling feeling

i don't dimiss the layers of HR managing legal and financial duties in a company and thus taking a cut, but there's a kind of pleasure to also do your own business for a while

> i don't dimiss the layers of HR managing legal and financial duties in a company and thus taking a cut

I don't wanna dismiss them either but (along with management):

- It's not positive-sum work. It doesn't produce positive value for society, it's just necessary work which needs to be done as a side effect of actual positive-sum work being done.

- The pyramid should be inverted. Managers, layers, accountants, etc. should be assistants. The people doing the actual work should (collectively) decide to hire them when they think it would make them more productive or be otherwise beneficial to them. Not the other way around.