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“The Double Standard of the Side Hustle”

We don’t often consider “Uber drivers skirting the lawโ€”making, for instance, illegal airport runsโ€”to be ‘hustling,’” writes The Washington Post‘s Emily Badger. But other types of similar activities have been “heavily criminalized.” Jeramey Lende/Shutterstock Consider the parallels between the much-celebrated “sharing economy” and black men selling loose cigarettes and CDsโ€”and how differently we treat them. […]

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