Hrmm...isn't that how the free-market works? It is precisely because you have no alternatives why you choose the work you do. If you can be a surgeon, you will

Hrmm...isn't that how the free-market works? It is precisely because you have no alternatives why you choose the work you do. If you can be a surgeon, you will be. If you can't, you won't. But whatever you decide to do, you can excel at it and move up as needs be (in most free societies anyway). You don't need to do this, so you wouldn't be their ideal delivery man. If you were, you would probably lose a few lunches and that would damage their reliability....which hurts their system and company. So the free market has priced you out of that job - because you wouldn't likely work for the pittance these guys earn. All of that being said, if these guys save and start to do other things, they too can eventually move up and possibly even start their own company that allows their past employer to outsource some functions to them! That might not happen, but nothing is really stopping them (cultural nuances aside, like caste, etc.) aside from good old fashioned drive and hard work. Edit: Plus you are missing the point. I am not saying that those delivery men are what is impressive. What is impressive is whoever put the system together that allows them to have the six sigma reliability when they are depending on thousands of illiterate men. That! is impressive....in my humble opinion.