Food Delivery Is a Window Into Our Busy, Overworked Lives

$40 Burger King and other realities of the gig economy

Thomas Smith
OneZero
Published in
12 min readJul 28, 2020

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In late 2018, as part of a photo series on the future of work, I became a driver for Doordash.

The experience gave me a unique glimpse into America’s foodways and the realities of the gig economy. It was simultaneously illuminating, concerning — and…

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