Delivery and ridesharing apps have algorithms that are almost indifferent from tip skimming. Many people working on those platforms live in financial hardship.
In an east asian country, people live under constant surveillance: physical (cameras, face detection), financial, and online activity. If you criticize the government you lose access to everything: payments, transport, credit, job, etc.
If you were paid a lot of money, would you implement those "solutions"?
That is the importance of ethics.