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So, piecework, and you're paid for your risk if the company likes it according to some metric, and constrained by how well the company is able to monetize the work.

Since health insurance is tied to employment for most people in the states, it's hard to see the downside. For the company.

Aside: I can imagine specific people from my past selling this model. It's slightly nauseating when I cast it that way.

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Yeah, for real--this feels like the sort of idea I'd hear hauled out by some of the most disreputable people I've run into in this industry. This is wishful and short-sighted project management with an exploitative cost structure for anybody you could sucker into it. I am uncomfortable reading it.

It's the sort of thing I hear from people who have never built something, worked in a job for more than a few months, or worked as part of a team. These people still think they have some amazing idea to contribute, that they're being "disruptive", but anyone with literally any experience can see right through it.

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