Eternal, Swiggy, Zepto are all unskilled worker arbitrage businesses

Exploitation of unskilled workers is at the heart of quick-delivery service businesses in India. They should be valued for what they are and not what they pretend to be, a trait that has taken a devious form of wanting it both ways.

4 January, 202617 min
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Eternal, Swiggy, Zepto are all unskilled worker arbitrage businesses

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