That's exactly what the Ich-AG concept is all about: the formerly employed worker is thrown between the millstones of large corporations with a small concept that might just barely work at the local level. When the big players no longer like it, they can easily get rid of him. He then no longer falls into the unemployment statistics, but at best among those receiving social welfare. The balance sheet looks great and an existence is destroyed.
Or did someone really believe that the Ich-AG was in any way about a forward-looking concept that people are supposed to live from long-term? Fooled you. Gotcha.
If it were really about that, the Ich-AG entrepreneurs would also be offered security measures when they go into self-employment. But that gets shifted by the state to the private sector; these people are supposed to get their own security.
Of course, the sloppy founder meetings (more hype than facts) and the rather time-constrained advisory services are not sufficient to turn a former employee into a full merchant. And promptly there are problems later with insurance, contracts, payments, taxes or contributions.
The Ich-AG would be a good concept if it really built on a sustainable model that included security and comprehensive support in business formation—and in a way that would allow the Ich-AG entrepreneur to take the risk. The way it's running now, the most frequently used advice will probably ultimately be debt counseling...
At WDR.de there's the original article.