it's fascinating that the WWE, which boasts a roster of "superstars" but not "employees," is somehow able to fine and otherwise discipline these 1099 workers while also dictating all the aspects of their working lives
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imagine, freelancers, if one of your $300 a piece publishers -- the Atlantic, let's say -- tried to hit you up with a "fine" for your "bad conduct"
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you'd tell them to go F themselves, and rightly so, because if the awfulness that is independent contracting affords you no other benefit, it's the right to owe nearly nothing to the person contracting your services
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the WWE offers a fascinating way forward for work, a world of work in which you are a "worker" but not an "employee," entitled to fewer state/federal labor law protections than a pizzaboy, a burger flipper, or a store greeter
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i think that's accurate among the top ranks, but there's a much, much larger sub-level of wrestler (or MMA fighter, though fines coming out of "purses" make some sense) much more comparable to somewhat busy freelancers for publications like the New Yorker, Wired, and so on
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