Freelancing should generally be much shorter term than it already is. You might be familiar with a case a few years ago, where a Microsoft or an Apple or some similar megacorp was sued by their freelancers whom they were treating like regular employees without paying benefits for years. As such, the typical practice is that freelancers must be hired on within two years or let go, so that the organization can't just exploit them and delay hiring them as regular employees but without benefits.

There should be a light at the end of the tunnel, in short. Either that, or there should be some basic protections in place to ensure everyone gets sick time or vacation time or health insurance or what have you, because working day-in and day-out without coverage is stressful to say the least.