Sumit

Engineer.

[LP Pant @pantlp]

जोशीमठ-विष्णुप्रयाग मार्ग…जाम की मुश्किलें भी यहाँ एक तबाही ��ी तरह ही है….

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Last one on this topic, and I have been holding this in myself for a while.

For centuries, class divides kept the labor of the poor invisible to the rich. Factory workers toiled behind walls, farmers in distant fields, domestic help in backrooms. The wealthy consumed the fruits of that labor without ever seeing the faces or the fatigue behind it. No direct encounter, no personal guilt.

The gig economy shattered that invisibility, at unprecedented scale.

Suddenly, the poor aren't hidden away. They're at your doorstep: the delivery partner handing over your ₹1000+ biryani, late-night groceries, or quick-commerce essentials. You see them in the rain, heat, traffic, often on borrowed bikes, working 8–10 hours for earnings that give them sustenance. You see their exhaustion, their polite smile masking frustration with life in general.

This is the first time in history at this scale that the working class and consuming class interact face-to-face, transaction after transaction. And that discomfort with our own selves is why we are uncomfortable about the gig economy. We want these people to look our part, so that the guilt we feel while taking orders from them feels less.

We aren't just debating economics. We are confronting guilt. That ₹800 order might equal their entire day's earnings after fuel, bike rent, and app cuts. We tip awkwardly, or avoid eye contact, because the inequality is no longer abstract. It's personal.

Pre-gig era, the rich could enjoy luxury without moral discomfort. Labor was out of sight. Now, every doorbell ring is a reminder of systemic inequality. That's why debates explode. It's not just policy. It's emotional reckoning. Some defend the system (“they choose it”), others demand change (“this isn't progress, its exploitation”).

And here’s the uncomfortable twist: the unsaid ask of clumsy ‘solutions’ isn’t dignity. It is about returning to invisibility.

Ban gig work and you don’t solve inequality. You remove livelihoods. These jobs don’t magically reappear as formal, protected employment the next day. They disappear, or they get pushed back into the informal economy where there are even fewer protections and even less accountability. Over-regulate it until the model breaks, and you achieve the same outcome through paperwork instead of slogans: the work evaporates, prices rise, demand collapses, and the people we claim to protect are the first to lose income.

And then what happens?

The rich get their old comfort back. Convenience returns without faces. Guilt dissolves. We go back to clean abstractions and moral posturing from a distance. The poor don’t become safer, they become invisible again: back in cash economies, back in backrooms, back in shadows where regulation rarely reaches and dignity isn’t even debated.

The gig economy just exposed the reality of inequality to the people who previously had the luxury of not seeing it. The doorbell is not the problem. The question is what we do after opening the door.

Visibility is the price of progress. We can either use this discomfort to build something better (which we keep doing continuously as delivery partners are our backbone), or we can ban and over-regulate our way back into ignorance. One of those choices improves lives. The other simply helps the consuming class feel virtuous in the dark.

[Congress @INCIndia]

BJP सरकार के मंत्री कैलाश विजयवर्गीय की भाषा सुनिए 👇

• फोकट के प्रश्न
• घंटा होकर आए हो

मध्य प्रदेश में गंदा पानी पीकर लोगों की मौत हो रही है और सवाल करने पर BJP सरकार के मंत्री गुंडों जैसी भ���षा का इस्तेमाल कर रहे हैं।

शर्मनाक

[Sanjay Singh AAP @SanjayAzadSln]

10 लोग गंदा पानी पीकर मर गए और BJP के मंत्री का अहंकार देखिए।

[Anurag Dwary @Anurag_Dwary]

देश के सबसे साफ शहर में गंदा पानी पीने से 10 से ज्यादा लोगों की मौत हो चुकी है जिस शख्स पर लोगों को साफ पानी पिलाने का जिम्मा है वो सवालों को फोकट बता रहे हैं हमारे सवालों को "घंटे" में उड़ा रहे हैं @manishdekoder @GargiRawat @Abhinav_Pan @sanket

[Sachin Gupta @Sachingupta]

MP में दूषित पानी से 10 मौतें –

पत्रकार : बहुत सारे लोगों के रिफंड की बात कही गई थी, अभी तक वो भी नहीं मिला और पीने के पानी की ठीक से व्यवस्था…

मंत्री कैलाश विजयवर्गीय : अरे छोड़ो यार, फोकट प्रश्न मत पूछा करो

फिर पत्रकार की 'पत्रकारिता' जाग गई...

[Sumit @SKB7482]

@AryaNikhil10 @PMishra_Journo Ghar pe utna hi pollution hai

[LP Pant @pantlp]

भास्कर का सबसे बड़ा खुलासा….

[Sumit @SKB7482]

@sachingupta कैसे लोग हैं ये इतनी छोटी सी चीज को इतना बढ़ा चढ़ा के क्यों दिखा रहे हैं?

[Sumit @SKB7482]

@vimlendu He said, "what is the PM 2.5 trend?

[Sumit @SKB7482]

NDA winning on 208 seats...Ye kaisa chunav hai.. unimaginable
#BiharElection2025

[Sumit @SKB7482]

As claimed 😒 . It's a fact not claim. Kabhi to theek se reporting kar liya karo

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Delhi | The area around India Gate and Kartavya Path is blanketed in a dense layer of toxic smog as the AQI in the area is 408 in the 'Severe' category, as claimed by the CPCB

[Sumit @SKB7482]

@sachingupta Praying 🙏

[Sumit @SKB7482]

@govindprataps12 गलत डेयरी का नाम क्यों ���िख रहे हो?

[Sumit @SKB7482]

@RakeshSinha01 @RSSorg Lekin do jagah vote nhi kar sakte

[Sumit @SKB7482]

@ECISVEEP Brazil se nhi aaya?

[Sumit @SKB7482]

@saaiyer @LinkedInIndia @Wipro @Wipro please take action against your employee.

[Sumit @SKB7482]

@manojpehul मावा मलबे में बदल गया। SAD

[Sumit @SKB7482]

@RIL_Updates This will ensure people don't opt out of JIO if it chooses to massively increase prices of 5G plans.

[Sumit @SKB7482]

@somnath1978 @timesofindia Private sector, innovate or perish. No more cheap labour to exploit.