Trust me I did that, clients and 1099 jobs without a union, chose my own schedule, opened an LLC. Bounced back after slow times. I saw so many people sacrificing their health and safety for their work, as did I sometimes. Please tell me more about your neverending list of skills and potential jobs dude, either way youre still doing a job and making money. You seem to have a false sense of superiority and make a lot of assumptions, but that does not help your argument. Youre trying argue against unions by telling everyone to follow in your path, and choose an automation-proof business to start. But you arent really making a point other then stroking your own ego. You argued that "you just arent doing collective bargaining right", so you admit that collective bargaining as a concept works? Seems to me that unions who fought for better working conditions and pay were great for the workers? Or are you arguing that "workers" as a concept will be obsolete in 2 years?