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JAMAICA

n a recent Uber ride in Kingston, Jamaica’s capital, my driver told me about his three other jobs. On the weekends, he worked as an air conditioning repair technician. He also tended to a small plot of land in the countryside to grow food for his family, and sold the surplus for extra cash. He picked up Uber as a way to

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