Right now, companies prioritize profit above all else. One would hope that we could legislate a mechanism to reward companies by number of employees employed. A billion-dollar one-man company isn’t very useful to anyone. A struggling 100,000 headcount company props up a huge section of the economy. One might envision tax increases and then tax breaks based on non-contractor headcount.

I hope you are joking

Tell that to the customers who paid one billion dollars for the products.