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I read an interesting article about delivery drivers in NYC, specifically how much of the market was completely unregulated and illegal, and how people work within what functions as an underground economy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/nyregion/migrant-delivery...

The person doing the work often isn't the person registered with (e.g.) DoorDash. There's a whole economy of middlemen who resell straw buyers' credentials/accounts.

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This obviously happens with Uber also, and to some extent AirBnB. A lot of "super" hosts have someone completely different manage the listing and the host is really just a brand for the listing page at that point.

That seems less problematic for Airbnb if you’re getting the actual listing as described.

This seems to be the case in bay area too. The person delivering the food is not the same person in the DoorDash app. It used to be rare before but not anymore. (sample size of 1, as recent as 2 days ago).

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