I find it entertaining how people seem to have a hard time separating their personal satisfaction, as customers, from a defense of a business model which achieves much of its &#x27;efficiency&#x27; by sidestepping the hard-won obligations employers have to their employees.<p>Calling someone a contractor, and pointing at &#x27;work on demand&#x27; as if it were a silver bullet that slays those obligations, don&#x27;t make it so.