The circumstances of crisis that exist within all capitalist economies play an important role in the creation of the platform amphibians, more so in the case of migrant workers because of them having to accommodate themselves with the effects of uneven development that produces a disproportionate web of power relations and wealth around them (Harvey, 2003). Migrant workers are more likely to work as platform amphibians because of the increasing need of money that characterises their lives. For these workers, innovations in the digital field characterised by platforms have exploited the conditions created out of the domination that commodities exercise over the material selves of human beings. They have hastened the promotion of money as a factor of community-building processes as Marx (1973/1993) had argued to be the case under capitalism, which is evident in the experiences that many migrant gig workers have had when they visit customers who are from their native places. The major transformation which has come is the intense amount of mechanisation of labour through automation that has come to dominate the labour process, which has created a social basis for the production of alienation at a mass scale (Fuchs, 2018). This is because, as Dunayevskaya (1958) argued, the more mechanised the labour process becomes, the less value an individual’s labour power generates which then results in an individual worker having to work longer hours to earn equivalent wages. This has great impacts on the workers themselves that interfere with not only their objective situation but also results in a deterioration of the subjective aspects of their identities. Arun, a migrant worker from Delhi coming from Bihar,<sup>23</sup> states:
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<sup>23</sup> Name changed due to privacy concerns.