The tragic attempt by this food delivery worker to take his own life has not only revealed his desperate plight, but also the broader exploitation of workers in China.

See https://chuangcn.org/2020/11/delivery-renwu-translation/ for another expose on the brutality of working conditions imposed on delivery workers in China, by a Marxist collective

  • s0ykaf [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    our biggest expense is, like everywhere else, our rent - i live in a 3-bedroom, 2-bathrooms, 76 m² apartment with a balcony in a closed community and my rent is about 1/5 of that

    it's hard to adjust by ppp because it changes so much by region, but if you do it nationally it's more like 1/3

    honestly 6,000 RMB would be a reasonable amount of money in all of latin america and i bet in any other 3rd world country, that a food delivery worker could ever earn this is absolutely unthinkable to me

    unless i'm messing up on the math here