Fun Fact. The origin of the word freelance is from Mercenaries with lances for hire; free-lances.
Check out the story here:
One interesting thing that I learned from this video is that there is such thing as fairwork for online freelances and that there are organisations that rate them. Here is one that I found from fair.work
https://fair.work/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2023/07/Fairwork-Cloudwork-Ratings-2023-Red.pdf
Might be interesting to look at the top 3.
