I agree with your sentiment but this part is false. Everyone has a boss, even business owners; the boss just becomes the customer instead of a manager. Becoming an owner doesn’t release you.
To some degree you can choose your customers as the owner. My manager can tell me "stop coding and scrub toilets or you're fired" if they want, and fire me if I refuse. Owners may not have complete freedom, but they at least have more.
You only have that freedom if you don’t want your company to be paid. Saying you can choose customers is no different than saying you can choose to scrub (or not) those toilets.
Yes, you always have choices. Consequences are not very different.
Owners can turn down customers and employees can turn down companies. The trade-offs are different but that doesn't mean you are a slave. Changing jobs is extremely easy, the only hard part is wearing the pros and cons of different jobs.
Changing jobs is extremely easy? Maybe if you're single and can throw everything you own in a Uhaul, or you live in an area with plentiful jobs in your field of expertise.
Moving a family of four from one 1700 sq ft house to another is not easy nor cheap, no matter how it's done. Turning down a customer, assuming your business can afford it, is far easier.
Nice job comparing worst-possible job changing scenario vs „assuming your business can afford it“ turning down a customer. Changing job is easy too assuming you can easily do it ;)
You don't have a great imagination do you if you think the above is the worst scenario. Hint - it's playing out for visa workers right now, 60 days or leave the country.
Changing job on your own accord is not the same as getting fired. And worst-timing-to-get-fired olympics is a great sport :)
On a different topic, people working abroad on crappy visa schemes made their own bed. I'm pretty happy I refused an offer to come to US on some crappy visa many years ago. Fuck that. The sooner system fails, the better.
I agree with your sentiment but this part is false. Everyone has a boss, even business owners; the boss just becomes the customer instead of a manager. Becoming an owner doesn’t release you.