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This is very sad. Regular earnings from Uber eats or similar are already way too low to live in a city like Paris, so as a sub-contractor, I cannot imagine how
by elcomet 7y ago
This is very sad. Regular earnings from Uber eats or similar are already way too low to live in a city like Paris, so as a sub-contractor, I cannot imagine how those people live. We are back to the 19th century and Victor Hugo novels.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoThey live similarly poor or poorer lives in the country of their origin also.
- elcomet 7y agoSo does this make it fine to let them live poorly in our countries? I don't think so, we can certainly do better.
- devoply 7y agoYes we can't have them live poorly, they must be either paid fairly or denied any money so as to leave. In other news Gig Workers create jobs for underprivileged and unemployed immigrants.
- rvense 7y agoThis is never either-or. Those jobs should come with fair pay and benefits. In whose interest is the new class of servants? As a software developer, I know I am highly prized in the current market - but this might change, and the people who are treating drivers and couriers as disposable cogs would do the same to me given half the chance. Fighting for worker's rights is self-preservation as much as it is a question of ethics.
- charliesharding 7y agoPaying them more will drive up costs. When costs go up, less people use the apps. When less people use the apps, delivery drivers get less money. Nothing exists in a bubble and it's important to look at underlying issues rather than crying foul play
- lotsofpulp 7y agoMy comment was intended to make the reader reflect on what the problem really is: That there are people living poorer quality of lives than legal Parisians within a certain distance of Paris, or that there are people living poorer quality of lives regardless of their location? The sub contractor's quality of life is too poor for you, but it's obviously better than where they came from. If the goal is to remove people living poorer quality of lives from a certain distance around people living better quality of lives, then the answer is to deport them and build barriers to entry to the country. If the goal is to stop people from living in drastically poorer quality of life conditions, then the answer is wealth redistribution.
- lelima 7y agoI think that's better than nothing, I have a friend that he lived in Milano thanks to that. Nobody wanted to hire him (cash in hand / illegal), and the only way to make anything was delivering food while he's status changed to permanent.