Delivering everything from books to falafel sandwiches was easy,but excessive periods of downtime make the prospect of earning a consistent living grimNicholas pads down the stairs of his apartment building on Broome Street in modern York’s Soho neighbourhood – where the cheapest two-bedroom unit costs more than $2m – in his boxers and a T-shirt to meet me on a Saturday afternoon. The twentysomething hands me two books and asks for them to be delivered to his friend’s place 11 minutes absent in the West Village. I am at Nicholas’s beck and call – and anyone else’s, whether they have a smartphone – as an Uber courier.
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Source: theguardian.com