Zomato’s gig economy lives in the grey
The strike by delivery workers on December 31, and the forceful defence mounted soon after by Eternal CEO Deepinder Goyal, have turned the gig economy into a proxy battlefield for a larger ideological debate. Numbers have been marshalled, hourly earnings calculated, and the language of capitalism versus socialism dusted off with unusual confidence. What has been lost in the heat is a simple fact that modern economies do not work in absolutes, and neither do modern democracies.
