“Also would be curious, how many people suffered or died due to not being able to charge their phone where a standard charger was available or vice versa for Android users?”

Are you seriously asking how many people have died because they can’t charge their phone?

Or read a book, or do literally anything else.

Maybe hope isn’t it for you, maybe it is finding joy.

Finding joy and being thankful for those moments of joy can also give you the drive to keep going.

You have to choose to have hope. Hope isn’t something given to you and it doesn’t fall from the sky. It may help to have someone or something to fight for, but ultimately you are fighting for yourself and those around you in your life. You may continue to walk through darkness, feel hopeless, for a long time - with the only thing giving you enough light to see the next step forward being your own internal flame. But you have to fight. It’s the only way through, to keep going even though it’s hard, until you find happiness again.

You have to choose to have hope.

But drivers sound like bvrrrrrmmm.

It still involves using floss. Just gets you to use less of it.

$18/hour is just barely a living wage in NYC. Actual living wage for an adult with 0 children in NYC is about $25.50/hour:

https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/36061

On top of that you have the challenges specific to these jobs. If you’re on bike, that’s hard work and limits the hours you can do without risking injury. If you’re driving (which is maybe practical in outer boroughs) you’re shouldering all the costs of the vehicle working for a delivery app. Either way that’s way too little after taxes per month, even at $18/hr.