Of late, there has been some concern, if not outrage, about the plight of the “delivery boy” working for companies that offer fast delivery of both food and other household goods. Like an inverted pyramid, a much larger edifice of convenience and profit is erected on their backpacks.

Technological advances have made it easier to move services from stationary locations into the wherever and whenever of need or desire satisfaction. In this warp of space-time, while margins might be thin, or success a function of how much financial fuel is needed to reach an ultimate and often distant singularity of astronomical profits for investors and promoters, the guys at the bottom seem to remain there.

Do they have a special right to our moral concern, or are they simply part of the considerable number of overworked and underpaid maids, cooks, cab drivers, garbage collectors, chowkidars, and itinerant labourers that make up the 90 per cent (we are told) of those who make up the Great Indian Nation?

Are they more exposed to exigencies? Less protected? Less well-paid?

The argument,........

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