Outrage about child labor in the bicycle delivery business is well over a century old, and for good reason [0]. Newspaper delivery, on the other hand, was a sh

Outrage about child labor in the bicycle delivery business is well over a century old, and for good reason [0]. Newspaper delivery, on the other hand, was a short before-school/after-school job (back when evening papers were a thing) that didn't particularly interfere with schoolwork, and had already been displaced by adults in cars in the 90s after our society ceded street space as automobile death zones instead of treating it as public space that children could be expected to ride bikes along safely[1]. [0] https://mashable.com/2016/07/20/bike-messengers/ https://mashable.com/2016/07/20/bike-messengers/ [1] there was plenty of resistance, but ultimately American society evolved into a technological dystopia where we permitted a new technology to be introduced to public spaces in spite of massive safety issues, ultimately overwhelming traditional uses https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/10/street-safety-american-history-dutch-cities-traffic-protests/599566/ https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/10/street-safety-am...