The Future of America Is Freelance
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Everyone will have to train and market themselves, fight for their raises/rates, and choose the most profitable jobs.
In the end, I wouldn't frame it as "the future is freelance," as much as "the future depends solely on you" which is not a bad thing if you are in the social darwinist camp.
It always has. Unless you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth, you always had to make your way on your own. And this will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future.
And as long as employers are promising stable employment, there will those who take them up on the offer.
I know a freelancer who never has trouble finding work, but I can't imagine that he doesn't worry about the economy preventing him from finding freelance work. In a company, I only have to worry if that particular company is doing well.