The way society is currently configured, at some point, for all practical purposes, you are effectively forced to take some kind of job. Or see your life turn into living hell in a whole bunch of ways. Which means that the idea that both parties are truly "willing" parties (let alone have more or less equal leverage in) the negotiation, at the very least -- needs to be radically revisited.
But for contract work? If you don't like the terms, don't accept.
"And don't pay the rent, and don't feed your kids" you mean.
Please, this is a very old topic.
The way society is currently configured, at some point, for all practical purposes, you are effectively forced to take some kind of job. Or see your life turn into living hell in a whole bunch of ways. Which means that the idea that both parties are truly "willing" parties (let alone have more or less equal leverage in) the negotiation, at the very least -- needs to be radically revisited.
But for contract work? If you don't like the terms, don't accept.
"And don't pay the rent, and don't feed your kids" you mean.