Life Inside China’s Gig Machine

For example, if a minute was worth 0.5 yuan, then the cost of urination was 1 yuan — that is, if the toilet was free to use and I only took two minutes. Eating lunch needed twenty minutes — ten minutes of which were spent waiting for the food — and had a time cost of 10 yuan. If a simple dish of rice and meat cost 15 yuan on top of this, then the whole endeavor was too extravagant! Basically, I skipped a lot of lunches.

Short interview of what promises to be fascinating memoir on life in the gig economy as delivery rider in China. Gig economy - the precarious variety - I suspect is something we might all do well to better understand. Have a read.