Comment by adrianmonk

That's not the issue. What people are asking for is for software to be treated like every other profession.

That's how it should be, and that's also how it actually was until relatively recently. A new law went into effect that treats software differently. I believe Congress was looking for an easy way to generate extra tax revenue by tapping into the wealth of rich tech giants. Whatever the intent, the workers ended up being the ones who suffer because now hiring people has worse tax consequences than it used to.

So all that people want is to undo that, to take away that special rule that applies only to software, and put it back like it was.