If business owners, taxi owners, hotel owners and others who claim to be working for themselves need to depend on customers and customer satisfaction for profit, that is to be able to get money from them, are they really working for themselves?
Maybe the people who are actually working for themselves are those who do not need people or to satisfy any customer to make profit, example like the traders who do not need to lure customers to their shop like business owners or hotel owners, or taxi owner that need to follow instructions from their clients etc.
What could be the real definition of working for yourself?
In my perspective working for yourself doesn’t always imply you’re fully independent from others, it only means you’re not under direct employment or income from someone else even traders rely on a market with buyers and sellers to profit. So in the end practically everyone depends on people in some form, I think working for yourself is more about having control over your time decisions and how you earn rather than being entirely free from needing others