Comment by dotdi
1 year ago
I think you got this wrong. Laws against Scheinselbständigkeit are protecting individuals from being exploited, and it's one of the things that characterizes the EU.
Don't forget that outside of Europe, most big economies were built on the ongoing exploitation of the working class. I am not saying this didn't happen in Europe, but at least there are efforts to curb this.
So a CIO complaining that he can't exploit people for cheap labour is not an argument for broken IT laws. It's an argument for seeing that it works as intended.
Nobody is being exploited, most people _want_ to self-employ to not get chewed by income tax.
Most states in Europe treat you like you're mister money bags for anything above 50k a year.
You can choose:
- Cost of living (read Housing)
- Taxation
- Income
Government's need to curb one of the first two or boost the third, otherwise people will always be looking for the exit door.
Thank you for giving an insight into the typical German way of thinking by immediately suggesting that the CIO was complaing about not being able to exploit his employees. He was not. I told him that I am running a tiny company and he warned by about the pitfalls of Scheinselbständigkeit.
The best argument against the EU is a 5 minute conversation with anyone who supports it.