# Quick commerce and the bargaining power of workers

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# Quick commerce and the bargaining power of workers

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capital allocators create a q com company. they hire a lot of gig workers whose only job is to pick from point a and deliver it to point b.

should we be proud and happy that we’re giving employment to so many people in a country where there are a lot of youth who couldn’t get a job?

should we proudly say that they’re getting more income than the average person?

should we be celebrating the capital allocators who created these companies on the virtue of creating so much jobs?

1. it is a fact that unemployment is high. it’s the govt’s duty to ensure that employment needs are met or there will be unrest and increase in crime.

2. delivering from point a to point b in a two wheeler doesn’t result in any meaningful experience that the person might gain for their exchange of services to be valuable for higher compensation over time.

it also doesn’t have any transferrable skills to any other job which you might want to go to have a career.

this means that employers can get away with paying them meagre salaries as much as possible since it’s a low skill job and you can replace them with a new entrant even if they’ve worked loyally for you - for a long time. there’s zero incentive for you to keep them. which means, you’re more likely to exploit them.

3. riding two wheelers very fast to deliver within 10 minutes and incentivizing them to do so results in the gig workers risking their lives to do a job. this doesn’t have any dignity nor safety.

unlike other jobs where there are comparable safety issues, the pay is quite high and their experience over time pays higher. the same isn’t for driving a two wheeler since it’s not perceived as risky even though there are accidents which happen often and the probability of it being fatal is very high.

so, if i see these issues balking at me, do i feel proud that our capital allocators are creating these jobs?

or would a responsible government see this as a temporary solution and work on policies which will result in greater education and companies investing into our place creating much more dignified skilled employment?

should the capital allocators have a holier-than-thou attitude because they’re creating these jobs

or

should they just accept they’re just capitalizing the situation and hope to make as much money as possible within the short time before the government fixes this problem or lobby the govt. to not fix this so you can continue to do this?

for their model to work, they need a large amount of workforce to not have skilled employment so there’s always easy availability of people seeking desperately for a job. the more desperate they’re, the more you can incentivize them to risk their lives faster to do things faster to satisfy consumers.

when people with sickles in their bio, point this as exploitation - they’re right. asking them to create jobs so that they can get the right to criticize entrepreneurs is preposterous. this isn’t how the society should function.

they are right.

we need to fix this as soon as possible with multi layered government policies that solve it. it’s not a one click solution, but we’ll get there when we have a discourse over the same.

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