The man who waits in line for the rich.

The article discusses about Robert Samuel, a 46-year-old former cell-phone salesman, whose job is now to sit in lines outside Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre for others, mostly wealthy. Topics discussed include how his strange career speaks a lot about capitalism and inequality in 2022; how Samuel has been at some of the most important retail and cultural moments of the millennium, and an extreme wealth inequality which has caused the gig economy to create risky working conditions for many.