On some of those late nights, especially when I picked up Indian food, I'd be hungry enough to genuinely consider this
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I’m convinced that the real goal of most tech these days is not to solve problems, but to make them someone else’s problems.
You’re a driver and think we’re not paying you enough? Sorry, our hands are tied, it’s all algorithmic.
You want sick time and health care? Sorry, since your manager is an app you’re technically not an employee but an independent contractor.
You want the food you paid for? Sorry, that’s between you and the driver and/or restaurant. We’re just a mediator.
And then they dupe some of us into blaming the consumers or workers. This is not a problem you can solve with market forces.
They act this way because the regulatory environment allows them to, not because they’re carefully watching what consumers think.
Remember, these are companies that are willing to burn billions to shut down any threats to their business models. By all means, be choosy with where you spend your money and who you work for. But don’t delude yourself into thinking that’s how we win.
I think this is just society at this point. So much of my therapy was learning to not let other people make their problem my problem, society seems stuck in that mindset too, you don’t need to solve anything just outsource your problems to someone else, you’ll still have problems but now you can be mad at a person no a concept or obstacle so that’s somehow… better?
This is 100% why these services exist. Running a.business with emplpyees who are delivery deivers is expensive, especially when benefits and insurance are required.
Hence the push for these bull shit "gig work" style apps.
Now you get people who maybe make 10% more as a Door Dasher than they wpuod directly working as say, a Pizza Hut driver dirrctly. Without realizing they are making basically halfnas much because they also get to cover all the backend expense Pizza Hutt wpuld cover.
The way we win is unionizing, that's why they're so scared of that.
Thats a nice way of putting it. I always just thought of it as inserting themselves into things that worked fine before but now they extract margin from everyone involved.
I used to just phone a local business and someone would who worked for them would bring me food. It worked fine.
our local thai restaurants have gone back to that model. they all share the same delivery guy, but they don't use doordash. it's more honest and fair for everyone involved.
A couple of our locals have now. Haven't used an app in years. It was always a terrible experience and way more expensive.
One of them you can pay by card on delivery, the driver brings a wireless card terminal. Works great.
It still works for so many places, all you need to do is pick up the phone and ask. Some have order forms on their websites too and you usually get a better deal.
But beware, some of those App companies create URLs for businesses (without their knowledge or consent) to reroute your search back to their App.
There should be a bot that responds with this every fucking time somebody says "boycott."
(I say as someone who has been boycotting several large companies for decades, to zero observable effect.)
yeah i can't remember the last time i bought nestle baby formula either