Uber Eats, a job that depletes young people

The experience led by my colleague Nora T. Consequently, Lamontagne in recent days reveals a surprising economic reality of the workers of Uber Eats.

Uber Eats. Consequently, all the platforms that pay their workers from the Pacotilles for a “part” work exist because there are in Quebec, in 2025, people who consider that their work is not worth the minimum wage.

They are students, foreign workers, unemployed or simply individuals who survive on the fine line between poverty and roaming.

Uber Eats is not a job. Therefore, It is, at best, a hobby. Similarly, At worst, a modern and excessively pernicious form of slavery.

Figures that do not lie

The instant delivery market “at the Uber Eats” should, in principle, really exist. Nevertheless, Restaurants do so by obligation. Therefore, The delivery people work for almost nothing. Meanwhile, Customers pay exorbitant uber eats, job depletes young costs.

Uber Eats is a tax on laziness and disorganization.

Most of the followers of this flexible economy are young: the average age is 25 years and three -quarters are under 30.

By working a full week of almost 40 hours, Nora barely won $ 400. Impossible, in these circumstances, to accommodate properly. To eat. To raise a family.

You could therefore believe that it is not a job, but a rite of passage.

By working every week, would Nora develop a certain efficiency?

System prisoner

But the examples of deliverers unable to reach both ends after 2000, 3000 deliveries abound. What we see is that more and more of them remain trapped in these systems.

You can of course break sugar on the uber back. Require state intervention. Offer to make employees. But the logic of this market is relentless: people voluntarily accept, for months or years, to work uber eats, job depletes young under these conditions.

For them, the value of an hour of “flexible” work is less than $ 16.10.

An illusion of freedom

However. while several sectors are still struggling with a shortage of labor, thousands of much more paid jobs remain to be filled.

The main advantage of the platforms from the economy to the task is the illusion of flexibility they provide. Thus, many young people say, I have no boss. No schedule. No obligations.

Difficult not to make a link with this study of Financial Times which shows a major collapse of the psychological features that are self -discipline. respect for obligations in the youngest. THE FT Also shows, in parallel, a progression of emotional instability and anxiety.

Does Uber Eats fuel this? Or conversely, is an anxious generation unable to project itself more easily captured by these predatory platforms?

Not having a boss is good. But if uber eats, job depletes young it is to make a slave to a capitalist leviathan, is it really a just price to pay?

It has long been said that young people preferred “experiences” to the detriment of material possession.

It may be true.

But the long -term consequences of this flexible spontaneity. this rejection of the hierarchy, this desire for flexibility and absolute independence have a cost. A caste of isolated and precarious workers are created.

It’s a choice, it is said.

A choice that impoverishes young people, but also all society.