The Bureau of Investigative Journalism found Deliveroo riders can earn as little as £2 an hour during shifts, as boss stands to make £500m

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  1. they changed the contracts back in 2017 from you being paid £5 an hour + £1 per drop, to just £5 per drop. there were some shifts where we didn’t get pinged for a couple of hours so this is not surprising.

  2. Yet people will still choose to use them, along with Just Eat and Uber Eats. Convenience trumps political activism all too often these days.

  3. This is exactly the sort of problem that blockchain was born to solve.

    Here’s an article

    “There is a scalable way to do this and there has been for about twenty years: centralized, web-based industry portals. For consumers, they exist for shopping, ride sharing, and vacation rentals, to name a few very prominent examples. Why haven’t companies adopted the same solutions? Because centralized systems tend to turn their network operators into market dominators. To be at the center of such a complex multi-industry web of communications is to become exceptionally powerful. Ask any taxi company or small business selling products online though some very well known digital markets. Those marketplace operators know more about the market than any of the individual participants, and they use that information as leverage.”

    https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/say-hello-nightfall-paul-brody-1f/

    And yes it would use NFTs, not silly pictures, but as they were intended to be used, as tokens to track meals, drivers and other assets.

  4. I don’t understand how people can write these headlines and think anyone believe this is the day to day reality and not some cherry picked stats.

    When I wasn’t working but was in the house doing nothing, I would sometimes log on and only do drops in a short walking distance of my home, I’d get maybe 1 every other hour but it did mean over an 8 hour day I’d get anywhere from £12 – £20 for literally 20 mins work.

    I would also work my arse off on payday weekends, do a 12 hour shift and earn in excess of £250, cycling well over 100 miles to attain it.

    Is it fair for me to say I earned more than £20 an hour?
    No.
    Is it fair for me to say I earned less than £2 an hour?
    No.

    As soon as you say someone makes £2 an hour you lose the discussion. It’s ridiculous and unbelievable, it’s not going to cause anyone to stop and think twice about it. The reality is that these delivery jobs are competing with other minimum wage jobs and will always pay about the same on average, once you’ve factored in for holiday pay and expenses. They should pay more for sure, I’d burn over 4000 calories on a hard shift, there’s no way that deserves minimum wage.

    The problem really is that people don’t get paid enough everywhere, the fact that someone is only getting paid £10 an hour for hard labour with no benefits, whilst their boss takes home £500m should be a headline in its own right, except that describes most big companies.

  5. This is all cherry picking of stats.

    One or two workers would get £2 maybe on one hour of their day. You are basically assuming the workers are poor wage slaves with no other choice. Often it’s young (immigrant in London) men with many casual work places they can go to – some of the guys who live a door down are from Afghan, and they say they make very good money doing a mix of food deliveries, Uber and casual work at building sites, fast food joints and a whole host of cash in hand stuff.

    It’s not glamourous, it’s often dangerous and long hours – but the guys are doing well and one of the guys who’s been here long got enough money together to bring his fam over and buy his own flat recently.

    Much more successful hustling this kind of work at ungodly hours than many. Got to be impressed!

  8. Load of bollocks, most the guys I know doing it as a second job make decent money from it, it’s just not consistent which is probably where the £2 stat comes from. If you just do a few hours after work in the evening you can easily make £20+ per hour but that’s assuming you only do a few hours on busy days.

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