To be independent - - really independent requires prodigious combination of skills: advertising and marketing in a minefield; ability to screen quickly and effectively without alienating business or attracting law enforcement, thugs or creeps; mobility (ability to travel); high proficiency in language and communication skills; and [we hope] decent TCB/BCD skills all at reasonable cost.
Many providers lack one or more of those skills, resources, training... Their own limitations leave them "vulnerable" whereas without assistance/coaching/protection, the provider may be more exposed as "indie" - - thus we see many providers work their way through managed arrangements before they develop sufficient skills/confidence/security to "go indie" ...
Working under compulsion is offensive to all reasonable notions of social justice and should not be tolerated in any civilized society.
19Trees
Exceptions for Time of War? In 1941 the US Dept of Agriculture needed people to take care of the farms while both men and women were working in support of WWII, the then Farm Service Bureau compelled farm work by female teens in "migratory labor camps"... Farmer Teens. Nice. Uuuh, we mean NOT nice.
