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by orangecat 16 days ago
It's bad because they're spending the same amount of time "working", but generating less output. It's a loss for customers, who either have to pay more or forego the service altogether.
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And it’s a win for the new group of drivers who ostensibly used to have a worse paying job. These dollars probably have more marginal utility for the people delivering doordash than for those consumers. If we want to be technical.
You do realize these are humans and not machines right?
No, we're talking economics here - picture a spherical human in a perfect marketplace
And humans are not purely economic machines.