Lots of anti-Deliveroo and anti-gig economy sentiment. I love Deliveroo, I love the gig economy. I've had a sprained ankle for six weeks. Without these compan

Lots of anti-Deliveroo and anti-gig economy sentiment. I love Deliveroo, I love the gig economy. I've had a sprained ankle for six weeks. Without these companies my life would have been much harder. Economic studies mostly seem to find that employees value the flexibility of the gig economy. (Feel free to tell me if I'm wrong - I'm just giving a broad-brush opinion.) It's unclear to me whether all the handwringing is coming from actual participants. In the UK we have had very low unemployment rates for the past decade. That's good. I'm glad that people can get a first job in this way. It's true that they classify drivers as self-employed. Maybe that is because employees would have a large and expensive panoply of rules applied - some of which may benefit them, while others seem more to benefit the only-too-thriving HR industry. I have zero desire to go back to the old days. I don't want the price of London cabs to go back to "unaffordable", to have to hunt for a dodgy minicab, or pay triple for a London taxi, which is a Mafiosic monopoly. I like being able to get food delivered. The pandemic would have sucked without it. Millions of consumers seem to agree.