Global Political news/blog for IB Global Politics
If you’d like to order food from the comfort of your couch without having to bankrupt your entire family from tips and fees, China may be the place for you. Due to the demands of China’s busy work culture, many often just do not have time to go out and purchase food. Delivery apps have became a huge phenomenon over the last decade, with a tremendous expansion in market size from 21.68 billion yuan (3.31 billion USD) in 2011 to an estimated 664.62 billion yuan (101 billion USD) in 2020. With apps like MeiTuan and Ele.me, your food is guaranteed to arrive within an hour fresh and hot while only paying a couple bucks extra for delivery fees.
However, did you know your delicious noodles that you just ordered were delivered by an overworked, under-paid, and probably depressed worker? Due to the high demand, MeiTuan and Ele.me create dangerous conditions for their workers, due to unreasonably short delivery deadlines. Having to deliver food within an hour often leads to dangerous road behavior to try to meet these deadlines. Failure to do so will result in less pay, often resulting in physical harm and mental distress to the workers themselves. In 2018, 196 traffic accidents occurred among food-delivery riders in Chengdu in seven months, with 155 casualties and an average of one rider killed or injured every day.
In conclusion, be a sigma and buy your own food – or if you can’t, be forgiving to your driver when your noodles are a little cold.
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