Nowadays many people choose to be self-employed, rather than to work for a company or organization.
Why might this be the case?
What could be the disadvantages of being self-employed?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
The meaning of a freelancer is that a person who is not under a firm but works and earns money himself. There are many freelancers in the world and its number is still increasing. There's a reason for this phenomenon below.
Thanks to advanced technology, the internet and mobile phone have been made and people are living with them every day. So, nowadays, people can earn money without being employed by firms because there are many platforms to help them make a profit themselves such as youtube, Facebook, and Instagram. When someone starts his own youtube channel and makes helpful videos for people, many people subscribe his channel and the channel owner can get a chance to sign on an advertisement. This is how they make money through youtube. Also, the main point of making money with Facebook and Instagram is getting famous and posting advertisements on their own accounts.
However, if self-employed keeps increasing, there will be some problems. First, the self-employed system is not an employee-friendly. Self-employed doesn't have a higher capacity for making jobs than traditional employers like a company.
Additionally, the economical balance could be collapsed. As it is written, most of all profits in self-employed system come out from advertisements. That means the cash could only flow to advertisement firms and it might destroy the economy.
To sum up, the internet and mobile phone are why the self-employed system come out to the world and some disadvantages such as decreasing of jobs and the destruction of the economy could be there because of the self-employed system.