As a software engineer, I have always sold a set of software revisions ("commits") that attempt to implement requirements/specifications.

It is important to talk about the actual delivery/product that you ship to your employer/customer, because that is what he is actually paying for. So, we are talking about commits against dollars, as a business model.

Quite a few corporations insist, however, that you come over to their offices to carry out the work on site.

Unfortunately, that drags in their HR policies, employee handbook, labour law, and other corporate rules and regulations. We are no longer merely talking about commits against dollars. Now it turns into supervising your whereabouts and activities for at least eight hours per day.

That is not the end of this series of side effects.

If you work at their offices, you also become subject to the country laws of the land surrounding their offices, including divorce laws. Therefore, we are no longer talking about a transaction where we merely exchange commits for dollars. No, the customer/employer now even insists on opening up your private life to a potential divorce rape.

I simply do not want to be subject to the often culturally Marxist laws in their location. Why can't they stick to the commits for dollars business model?

In software engineering, it is perfectly possible to use communication tools and constitute virtual teams across the globe. There is no need to force people to sit in the same location.

It has always disturbed me that the inability and outright ineptitude to use modern tools, is used as an excuse to force people to expose themselves to a divorce rape. I have lived for over 15 years now, far outside the West, going my own way, by working remotely. It has been a continuous war to prevent corporations from trying to drag me back to the plantation. I find their behaviour to be utmost detestable.