In the next ten years, people will be having nostalgic conversations about the quaint time when we all worked at small businesses. People forget that the definition of a third-world economy is that it is filled with “gig” jobs.

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Nathan Smith is a former business journalist and columnist at the NBR. He also worked as the chief editor at the New Zealand Initiative policy think tank. He is now a freelance writer and copy editor.