Read: I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan ★★★ 📚 We had witnessed all of this unfold, quiet onlookers, none of us...

Read: I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan ★★★ 📚 We had witnessed all of this unfold, quiet onlookers, none of us stepping in to teach him a lesson or reaching out to help the pregnant woman. At most there were some words of comfort offered to her. We each had our own pressures to deal with in the end, our own issues at home. No one had anything left over to give. A work environment like that squeezes all life from a person. You wind up emotionally overdrawn, and numb and indifferent, without even noticing. The moral of this story: When disgruntled, the lowly among us only have each other to pick on, because going after the powerful will only cost us in the end. And if that’s too much, there are always animals. Love is blind, people like to say. But if you ask me, love sees clearest of all; it is the least interested in personal gain, and the most true to itself. What’s blind is hatred. China doesn't seem very socialist as the author runs through many gig economy jobs, working…

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