[brownbat]

I know Stephenson was mostly joking, but a part of me felt sad visiting Seoul and seeing just how phenomenally better at food delivery they are than America, and I assume anywhere in the world.

They'll strap an inexpensive meal to the back of a motorcycle and deliver it wherever you are standing. Sometimes they'll return in an hour to pick up the real plates and silverware they left with you.

With the way they have industrialized pop music, and given the movie industry there, it is almost like Korea read Snow Crash and took it as a challenge.

[woolvalley]

I think that is an economic calculation that is enabled by being a dense metropolis, which in america is effectively illegal outside of manhattan.

[tivert]

> They'll strap an inexpensive meal to the back of a motorcycle and deliver it wherever you are standing. Sometimes they'll return in an hour to pick up the real plates and silverware they left with you.

How much is that motorcycle deliveryman making?