A better deal promised to platform economy workers, but where is the road map?

Let me start this edition of Things Change with a very short story. One that my father, bless his soul, would often tell. 

Once upon a time in a crowded market, one man said to another: “The crow got your ear.”

The second man ran behind the crow, a stone in hand. He ran for a while before someone stopped him, asked him why he was running and told him both his ears were intact.

(This story is fictional and has no relation to any events, past or present. Any resemblance is a mere coincidence.) 

That said, let’s …

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Pradip K. Saha

Pradip is a co-founder at The Morning Context and leads our newsletters vertical. He has previously worked at The Ken as a staff writer, at Mint as an assistant features editor and the Deccan Chronicle as a copy editor. He works with a slew of expert newsletter writers across subjects and domains. His own writing spans the gig economy, farmers caught in the crossfire of technology, global warming and parents trapped in the edtech wave. Some of his best stories have come at the intersection of technology and human endeavour.

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