How much should parasitic gig companies contribute to city resources?

The gig economy is rapidly reshaping urban life. The way we shop, eat and travel has been transformed by apps and the workforce behind them.

Yet digital labour platforms do not provide their employees with adequate support. Instead, they have to find basic provisions like toilets and break facilities entirely independently.

At a global level, the total number of people working in the gig economy is relatively unknown, but may be as many as 435 million people when online gig workers (or cloud workers) like social media chat moderators and data entry workers are included.

But according to ABC News, almost 250,000 people work in Australia’s gig economy.

Home to an even larger gig economy is Bangladesh, reported as the second...