[talltimtom]

What’s immoral here? You know someone who can’t work so you let him rent your phone so he can work. I mean it’s not respecting the law, but it’s no more immoral than companies renting out cars, houses, or tools used by others to earn a living.

[ddeokbokki]

Deliveroo riders have some of the worst working conditions, it's a grind and people do it because they need the cash.

Going as far as circumvent legal regulations and even pay to be able to do such a job is a good indicator that the person doing it is desperate for income.

Many people believe wealth should be shared, that everyone deserve happiness, and that no one should spend their lives slaving away just to survive, those same people would not try to profit off of someone desperate for income and willing to work hard and would consider what OP is talking about immoral.

[chumali]

This is the same argument leveled against sweatshops and it is frankly a fallacious one.

It proposes a false dichotomy where the worker has to either be in well paying and fulfilling employment (which obviously is not an option given their circumstances) or alternatively, they must be saved from the tyranny of their employer (usually through enactment of regulations which will leave them jobless).

Either way all it achieves is to deprive the worker of income, experience and the agency that comes with being able to make their own employment decisions. Your comment, despite seeming conscientious, gives little consideration to utility of the worker and the pragmatic decisions they face.

A sense of moral outrage towards a company (or individual) for perceived exploitation of their employees might be justified, but is not sufficient grounds for limiting the freedom of exchange.

[C1sc0cat]

Accessory to a large number of immigration crimes and in the Uk that's a strict liability offence.

A former PM (Gordon Brown) was fined when it was found that his cleaner had used good forged papers.

Various modern slavery and gangmaster laws also come to mind.

[chumali]

The question was what makes it immoral, not what makes it illegal.

[C1sc0cat]

Taking advantage and ripping off unfortunates is not immoral? As Seward said "there is a higher law".

[erikpukinskis]

No, the law preventing residents from working is immoral. Someone sharing their identity to allow them to work is actually doing a righteous thing.

[C1sc0cat]

And you don't think the sort of person that does that isn't ripping the hell out of poor sods?

There have been well documented cases of modern slavery where disadvantaged people like this have been abused and effectively turned into slaves.

[iagooar]

The author wrote that some people would make other people do the work, taking a cut. Given, that people who work themselves at Deliveroo already struggle to get a decent salary, then yes, it is immoral.

[vollmond]

The person with the account is providing a benefit in return for that cut, though -- the account itself and the attached phone. It's not slavery, any more than Amazon taking a cut of sales through their website is.

I fail to see how the citizen in this case is harming the non-citizen.