[cblconfederate]

I understand the convenience of delivered food esp. during the lockdowns, but people should not be glorifying these companies that are instituting a modern big-tech-powered serfdom by scraping the bottom of the barrel of gig work. We need a better model for this , not human-robots that carry food to the well-off.

[fabatka]

It isn't these companies' fault that couriers don't have better options. If anything, without this kind of service existing, a lot of them would be simply out of work completely.

[bellyfullofbac]

It still feels exploitative. To open a can of worms, what if I compare this to prostitution?

Yeah I get it, there's a gap there (uncaring governments and lack of good-enough jobs), and it's not their fault that they can profit from this gap. Although I suppose the moralistic issue is that these rent-seeking companies are paying as low as possible to attract/keep the workers and pocketing the rest (not to mention the other dodgy shit like trying to extract the maximum from restaurants, e.g. by hijacking their ordering system). But hey, as a child of capitalism, I'd do the same too.

Maybe I should change jobs and be a pimp...

[input_sh]

The one I'm using was recently forced to employ their workers full time. It means no more flexibility, losing about a 100 drivers instantly, and increasing delivery times by about 30-40 min in the short run, and I'm perfectly fine with that.

I don't know if Glovo as their only real competitor is held onto the same standard, I refuse to use them because they approached the market by throwing money at it, buying competitors and every ad they could in whichever media they could (TV, radio, newspapers, billboards, for months it was the only ad you'd get on YouTube, etc).

[cblconfederate]

But what do you think about this lifestyle in which middle class people sit trapped in their homes all day while the peasants bring their food and groceries to them. Are we turning cities to prisons without bars?

[input_sh]

I'm not "trapped indoors", I'm too lazy to cook every meal. You've made a pretty big leap between using a delivery app and using it all the time for everything. I do one meal a week, maybe two if I'm really lazy. I also buy my own groceries. Shocking, I know.

The amount of people that can afford to do that all the time will always be small enough not to make any difference in how a city operates.

[agentdrtran]

the only options here aren't full-time or serfdom.