The ILO has adopted the world’s first binding labour standard for digital platform workers, covering gig economy jobs from food delivery to ride-hailing

In Edgar Allen Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death," the kingdom of Prince Prospero has been hit by a terrible plague. After the Red Death has killed half the population, Prospero summons "a thousand hale and lighthearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court" to a secluded abbey, well-provisioned with resources presumably squeezed from the peasants. They weld the iron gates shut and settle in to wait the plague out. The less-fortunate people dying outside aren't their problem.