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Delivery Riders: The Algorithm, Survival, and Dignity

Rosa Marchetti||Source: Global Watch Original
Delivery Riders: The Algorithm, Survival, and Dignity
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Thirteen million delivery riders — the bloodstream of urban China. Orders are growing, but pay per delivery is shrinking. Algorithms optimize routes to the minute but never factor in bodies pushed to exhaustion.

Signs of change

Some cities are experimenting with flexible social security, minimum per-delivery rates, and injury insurance. It is a start — but riders need systemic protection, not piecemeal charity.

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