[rolandog]

Whether we like it or not, delivery is a profession. It requires endurance, alertness and planning ahead (think travelling salesman problem); they also need people skills to deal with entitled customers and bosses.

However, there are incentives in place to not regard it as such: we don't want to pay extra; businesses don't want to pay a grown-ass adult with responsibilities; and adults don't want to make children's live's easier if they had it rough when they were growing up.

Disregarding other's rights of existence and rights of having a labor-free infancy will always come to bite us in the end: it's "fine" until you're replaced by an easily-exploitable teenager that can be underpaid because they're not aware of their labor rights.