Transformative Talks Recap: Supporting delivery and warehouse workers
We live in the age of convenience facilitated by e-commerce and apps. One perspective to acknowledge is that being a consumer of convenience comes at a cost. There is one or several workers behind the package that comes to your door within 24 hours or the food that comes to your door in an hour.
How do these workers suffer? What are alternatives to Amazon and other food delivery channels? There is a lot of the exploitation of these third party apps that try to keep rates down and minimize risk for themselves and increase profits for themselves.
In this June 2020 Untokening Transformative Talk, we reflected upon the price of convenience.