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From sharing to gigging

Would-be self-employed workers may underestimate the true cost of freedom

When I was a little whippersnapper, sitting in the back seat (or on a rare occasion, on the lap of an adult in the front — amazing what was OK back then!), I used to be impressed by the advertising on the side of solitary houses we passed on the way to a Sunday visit to distant relatives. Sometimes it…