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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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
