> Delivery is hugely popular in eg China and South-East Asia, where the few dollars of unsubsidized delivery fees paid by the middle class can actually sum up t

> Delivery is hugely popular in eg China and South-East Asia, where the few dollars of unsubsidized delivery fees paid by the middle class can actually sum up to a living wage for the poor doing the jobs. I don't think you're using "living wage" in the same sense as it's typically used in the US. IIRC, those delivery people in China work very long hours to live extremely precariously. They're also often treated extremely unfairly (e.g. having to eat the cost of a failed delivery that was in no way their fault).