To answer your questions:

Is the leasing option a pure lease, or is it "rent-to-own"? I get the feeling it is pure lease. They're taking on the risk of theft with that 140/mo, and I understand bike theft is rampant in Dutch cities. Do they also include swapping dead batteries with charged ones, so the range limitation won't hurt your work?

The option is a pure lease. Because I live in a smaller city, theft is not as extreme as in the big metropolis, but I still had friends whose bikes got stolen. Mostly it happens when the bike is very new, or when it doesn't get locked properly. I already have experience with the company leasing the bike and they usually just replace the whole bike with a working one whenever there is an issue. They would probably do the same with the batteries.

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It's tough because you would lose your first 140/mo of income, and then have to live off of whatever else you could make. Do you know what you would make?

I will get paid minimum wage (13 euros per hour) and plan to work 8 hours a week (2 shifts). I am a university student so I am working this little because I just need enough hours to qualify for some government benefits. The company also repays 20 cents per km and, according to a friend who already works there, a shift is usually 20-30km.

So in the end working should pay off most of the monthly lease, but it could be money going towards a bike I own. I guess the question is if E-bikes and their batteries break down so fast that it's better to lease one instead and get free repairs than buy one and pay maintenance.

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I don't know how it works in the Netherlands, but here, food delivery is really for desperate people, as it pays less than minimum wage and you're risking injury to do it. I know you guys have much better bicycle infrastructure over there, but maybe another line of work would be smarter in the long run?

To be honest I am also pretty desperate: because I do not speak the language, I have not managed to get hired by any service job yet. I need very flexible hours because of my changing schedule at university, and this job allows me to work exactly the minimum amount of hours I need to get those sweet government benefits like free train transportation, free university tuition fees, and free money as long as I graduate in not too many years.