[shmatt]

While true this would lead to thousands of people being online without demand. If one really wants their food in 45 minutes, or an uber driver always 3 minutes away, they need a lot of people doing nothing staring at their screens for long periods of time

Capping the # of people online would cause tons of other issues, its very easy to exploit a system like that, plus it would slow everyone down

Either we want people to do things for us, want it super fast, and want to pay everyone for every second of their time. Can't have all of these without hiring a personal driver working just for you full time

[cantSpellSober]

Not in a city the size of NYC.

In between deliveries, they are on their shift, and they should be paid for their time.

[troupo]

> Either we want people to do things for us, want it super fast, and want to pay everyone for every second of their time.

Yes, you either pay people for every second of their time, or pay enough money for their work hours. There's no way out of this.

A courier or a taxi driver does not chose to sit on their ass the entire day. You can get a hundred orders in a row, or you can have no orders for an hour or two, and you have no control over that. And it's not like they can just get up, get a cup of cofee and go to a second job in the meantime.