There is some truth to this, but perhaps not in the way you imagine. The government punishes freelancers and companies that employ them through discriminative tax policy. Example (one of many) compare the tax treatment of employees vs. contractors under SR&ED. The shift to a free workforce, where people can combine to form teams and work on multiples teams in parallel, will require new approaches to employment law, benefits, pensions and public goods in general. That is a debate we need to have.