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by input_sh 1688 days ago
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).

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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?
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.

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