I found indisputable proof of this happening.
We were using Google maps, driving in a production van. We were talking about the song “Gasolina” by daddy yankee. The person whose phone it was did not speak Spanish. Moments later we were being served suggestions to stop at “estaciones de gasolina”
Oh, have they been hiding it? Seems pretty goddamn apparent to me.
In my experience, plenty of local shops delivered. And when Uber eats came about, they had to fire their own delivery people because so many would check Uber eats first. Not to mention the restaurants get less on the food, when small, locally owned restaurants are already surviving on razor thin margins.
So the idea for these services is basically “I don’t want to go to my local restaurant to pick up food, so I’m going to financially hurt them so a middleman can profit by forcing them to deliver to me (which plenty were doing already).”
My point is it’s such a uniquely stupid, uniquely American concept that hurts everyone involved, and makes a ton of money for one large company—who completely inserted themselves into it unnecessarily.
If the argument is whether or not there should be a moral dilemma when ordering from them, I say yes. We can’t absolve ourselves of our laziness on this one, I don’t think.
And the likening it to insurance companies was strictly for the purpose of a meaningless middleman who changed the structure of the system they exist in, in order to profit unnecessarily. I tried to make it clear the likeness stopped there, but maybe I wasn’t.
ETA: you also can’t discount the factor of newer restaurants trying to open, who now don’t even have the foothold of existing in-house delivery in order to wrest some of their own profits back from fuckin uber. For those previously existing businesses, of course some of their established customers would still use their delivery, but UE bit off a huge chunk of their business. But newer places? Forget it. They don’t stand a chance. It’s just a leech company looking at smaller businesses’ profits and saying, “hey, by name recognition alone, we could take a bunch of that by making an app and not even hiring employees but forcing people to use their own vehicles so we don’t have to pay for any of that shit.”
It’s indefensible.
Ah, rape humor. Does it ever get old?
It shouldn’t, because it should’ve been aborted.
I a, bothered by the ratio of what I pay extra for third party services as compared to what the delivery person receives. You can’t possibly drive the price up further
The solution already existed. It’s called restaurants delivering their own food. But Ubereats shoehorned their way into the equation to be an unnecessary middleman in order to profit. Exploiting a whole new group of people in the process.
I absolutely share the moral dilemma with the concept of third party delivery. They’re just as useless as health insurance companies, so if you see the problem with the latter, you can def see the problem with the former. (Not to say they’re on the same scale or have similar histories or have equal amounts of blood on their hands, just that they’re similar in structure in a system that work(s)/(ed) fine without them.)
What’s the temperature over there? I mean, people see Elon as a fuckin hack and a joke, right? He doesn’t have as dedicated of a boot licking club? Or do a good amount of Germans actually buy into his “I’m a genius inventor and a respectable iconoclast who should be listened to” nonsense?
Please tell me he’s going to realize how limited his influence is come February. Please.
Dude. If it turned out to be a new mega-season of Punk’d where Ashton Punk’d all of us for the last…like…15 years, starting with the 2010 midterms? Oh man. I guess that’d also explain where Ashton has been all this time.
That makes sense, you’re probably right
Well, the party and those who faithfully serve it probably live a pretty nice life. I’m assuming, based on other totalitarian parties throughout history.
Like, we found acceptable, beautiful levels of graphics years ago.
We’re not the ones saying “make it look even better.” They are the ones that seem to be whipping themselves into some frenzy and saying “we can’t keep doing this!”
So fuckin stop.
right? but then again, this is fuckin ABC news. Not the most reliable source for non-mushmouth platitudes.
By staying the course. Literally. Their desire for profits is what’s causing the extinction of humanity.
The only text predictor I want in my life is T9
Hmm…I swear behavior like this, in a bigger pattern of state persecution of a group of people has a very specific name.
It’s like when you control, slaughter, dehumanize an “out group”—man! Why can’t I think of the word! It’s like “gentle-…something” which is ironic because the behavior of the oppressor is so barbaric and inhuman. Damn! Why can’t I recall this word!
Like, the nazis did it, you know what I mean? Now, I might be wrong here, but this story has some connection to the nazis too. Can’t put my finger on that either.
Oh, right.
But it’s who’s hurting. When the solution involves making the poor suffer more for the better of the economy…you think that’s the right solution?
I’m not going to pretend to know much about the Argentinian economy. But using the basic tenets of my moral worldview, I have to say I disagree. But hen again, I am incredibly uninformed about the history of politics in Argentina. And I will say, what I learned from my Argentinian friends while living in South America, I would have to assume the problem is similar to other countries in South America (and in NYC)—it’s not the structure, but the string of corrupt assholes who take advantage of the position when they get in power. That story is not unique to anywhere in the world. Power corrupts people. So I’m going to, again, share my kind a uninformed opinion and say I would assume corruption has been the problem, not that the poor people weren’t getting screwed hard enough.
Well, the nazism, the car thing, the evil vulture capitalist…kinda similar.
Well the original comment I was replying to was implying it was scarier because there could be other foreign govts doing the same thing. I dunno, the comment just seemed to imply this was some new and dangerous threat when we’ve been living with equal and much worse when you consider the actual cops have the backing of the courts and the federal govt to royally fuck your life up.
Holy fucking shit. Inhuman garbage. Fucking lower than goddamn trash. Filth. Absolutely disgusting. I’d be happy to spit on these peoples graves. Or put them in one. They absolutely deserve it. Vile fucking low-bottom fucking grubs.
What makes this scarier than gangs or mobs? An organized group of violent people acting in a way you can’t defend yourself from. Just like the cops themselves. This isn’t any scarier than the actual existence of all of those other groups.
Yeah, what an insane framing for this story. One person is swayed and acts: “ISIS IS THE MOST TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED TERROR GROUP IN THE WORLD AND THEYRE GONNA TURN YOUR NEIGHBOR AGAINST THE JOYS OF CAPITALISM! THEIR TENDRILS OF TERROR HAVE TAPPED INTO TELEPHONES AND TELEVISIONS ACROSS THIS COUNTRY AND HAVE CERTAINLY TALKED TO YOUR CHILD ONLINE! YOU SHOULD BE TERRIFIED AND TITILLATED!”