Vinayak Katkar

Digital entrepreneur, an avid reader and irrational thinker!
Cofounder, Director @ Amura marketing technologies.

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@deepigoyal 6/6
If the model were fair, there’d be no guilt to explain away.
The doorbell isn’t the problem.
The question is whether India’s gig platforms are willing to share surplus, accept accountability, and stop hiding wage-setting power behind emotional narratives.

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@deepigoyal 5/6
Shifting responsibility to consumers (“tip more, feel less guilty”) is convenient. Middle-class customers don’t set payout formulas or take platform commissions. Dignity cannot be crowdsourced via tips - it must be built into the system.

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@deepigoyal 4/6
The claim that regulation will “kill livelihoods” is a false binary. India isn’t debating bans - it’s debating minimum earning floors, accident insurance, fuel compensation, and transparency. These don’t destroy jobs; they prevent exploitation.

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@deepigoyal 3/6
Saying “they choose this work” ignores Indian labour reality. As Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo note in Poor Economics, “the poor don’t have the luxury of making the right choices.”
When alternatives are weak, bargaining power collapses. That’s compulsion, not choice.

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@deepigoyal 2/6
In Indian cities, a delivery partner’s earnings depend on opaque incentive slabs, fuel price, waiting time at restaurants, & algorithmic allocation - all controlled by platform.
Tipping or eye contact doesn’t fix a system where risk is pushed downward and margins flow upward.

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@deepigoyal 1/6
This debate isn’t about “visibility” or consumer guilt. It’s about power.
Customers don’t decide delivery pay in India — platforms do. They set base rates, incentives, penalties. Turning this into a moral lecture for the middle class distracts from who actually controls wages

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Breaking: Govt bans stand-up comedy for being ‘too real’. Encourages ‘light-hearted scams’ instead.
#kunalkamra #KunalKamraControversy #yashwantverma #EknathShinde @PMOIndia

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Comedy: Booked. Corruption: Transferred. Common sense: Missing.
#kunalkamra #yashwantverma

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@DOStatus @DOStatus @yanceyspruill our K8s cluster is not accessible since you upgraded for last 9 hours. No help on tickets raised. Please resolve asap.
We're losing our SaaS customers. Extremely poor infra and service in this month. We have faced major downtime in BLR region.

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Is this culture Byju's promoting abusing employees for not selling and abusing parents for not buying Byjus.
Shame :(

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@ICICI_Direct can you please allocate shares of Yes bank purchased on 13th March, it's been 2 months. No update or response from your team, and @NSEIndia. Have you forgot to allocate, or is this cheating & one more scam of looting investors' money @RBI @nsitharaman @narendramodi

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Vivek Anand Oberoi as PM Narendra modi is looking as fake as Narendra Modi in real life. #ModiBiopic

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We at @amuratech , believe everything falls into place with #Google. #WeArePartners #Amura @googlepartners

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After almost a decade in real estate marketing, our Data Scientist, Mr. Shubham Chintalwar at #Amura has formulated a list of writing strategies that have shown positive results in Google #SearchAds.

Read on:. https://t.co/QJQfHIZoPQ

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History of progress is histry of innovative & efficient companies replacing incumbents. If u don't innovate u r bound to extinct #Fridayfact

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People turn to @Twitter to check any of Google FB, #instagram is down, just wondering whr they will turn when Twitter is down #instagramdown

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Friend: Which is the skill I need to hav that won't be replaced by #ArtificialIntelligence

Me: Logoko Chutiya Banana

#teatime #randomshit