How to make an Alliance


A self employer joint venture is created by making a contract between yourself and your fellow self employed colleagues that sets out how you will carry on a joint venture in a way that allows everyone involved to be self employed.

The following articles discuss some of the important matters you should consider when writing the contract for a joint venture like this.



The first rule of any self employer joint venture must be that everyone who contributes to the joint venture, either directly or indirectly, must be self employed.

Otherwise, it’s not a real self employer joint venture, with peers who spontaneously lead and follow, but just a boring old everyday joint venture with masters and servants instead.

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Your share of the joint venture’s profit should be equal to the share of total contributions to the joint venture that were made by you, rather than by someone else.

When you negotiate your share of joint venture profits with your colleagues, you are in effect collectively agreeing how valuable your contributions are, relative to everyone else’s contributions.

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The essence of the control that a self employer has over their business is that it is direct. They do not delegate their decisions to some trusted person who runs the business on their behalf; they do it themselves.

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The biggest difference between an employee and a self employer is having control over your business rather than following orders. But how can you have effective control, unless you also know what is going on?

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Current and Capital contributions should be rewarded differently. Allow me to explain this with Pies;

Sometimes you’re making the pies, sometimes you’re making the kitchen. The pies create profit right now. The kitchen creates profit for years to come. If you made the pies, you should get your share of profit now. If you made the kitchen, then you should get a little bit of the profit share for as long as the kitchen is used.

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It’s quite likely that your contribution to any reasonably sized alliance will work out to be less than the combined contributions by all of your colleagues. In this case, your voting rights will also be a minority of total voting rights. You could find yourself in a situation where everyone else disagrees with you about something important, and they all outvote you.

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A trainee or apprentice employee is a particularly severe example of a wage slave. They are usually very underpaid, have next to no autonomy or decision making capability in their work, and are subordinate to everyone around them.

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