3 dollar delivery food 20块的外卖

今天中午懒得做饭，就叫了外卖，图片上这么食物加上外卖小哥的外送费，总共才只要23元。便宜到简直难以置信。

这也引发了我的一个好奇，外卖小哥送这么一单可以赚多少钱呢？在我的收据上，外卖费是5块3，我问了一下小哥，他一单的收益也差不多在4到5块左右。我们这一片是居民区，很难有一趟行程送好几单的情况，小哥一般一小时可以送3到4单，也就是每小时赚十几二十块左右。如果这个小哥一天工作八小时，一周工作五天的话，一个月也只能赚2600多块，很难以想象这点钱如何在上海生存下去。

昨天正好在和一个重庆的网友聊天，他也提到他在办公室工作，日薪只有70元左右，这个工资算下来可能还不如上海一个老人的养老金。只能说中国实在太大了，有的时候很难想象，不同的人在这个国家不同的角落是过着怎样的生活，感慨感慨。

Lazy to cook lunch, I ordered 2 boxes of fried bum, a box of Chinese ravioli, and a soup. And how much these nice fresh hand-made food takes ? 23.8rmb (roughly 3 dollar) including delivery fee and no tips.

As a customer, of course I am glad to get all of this with such a low price. But also, I kind of curious how can the price be so low, especially how much can the delivery guy get.

According to the receipt I got, the delivery service cost 5 rmb (less than 1 dollar). And I asked the delivery guy, he got roughly 4 to 5 rmb (less than 1 dollar) for each delivery. Let's assume he could finish 3 delivery per hour, in 8 hour working time, he could get 120rmb (17 dollar) per day . And that would be 2640 rmb(374 dollar) per month if he work five days a week. However 2640 rmb could not support his minimun cost of life in Shanghai. So most of the delivery guy work overtime everyday and rarely have weekends so that they could earn roughly 5000 to 6000 rmb(710 to 857 dollar) per month. Some people may ask why he didn't get better job. However, 90% of the people in China don't have a university degree. (data from national statistic office people with a university degree/total population=0.086=8.6%) They don't have a chance to work in the office. They may only pick a job among shop assistant, factory worker, or delivery.

But if we look at the social media in China, you would have a illusion that every people have a university degree and every one has a high salary. Like some of my friends just post their photo of having a yoga class, which charges 100-200 rmb(roughly 14 to 28 dollar) per hour. Of course I am not writing to blame on my friends or those people enjoy their fancy life. After all, I am also the person who spent 100 rmb on yoga class.

I just feel little bit lost by finding that people are living such a different life in the same city and they don't even know or not know much about each other. This remind me of the Apartheid in South Africa. People are unintentionally separated into different society class and not knowing how people's life is like in different class.