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I've honestly never quite realized up until now how utterly ridiculous it is that people (especially in the US) regularly demand that their food be chauffeured to them. (lemmy.world)
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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

NYC tipped worker minimum wage is like 13 an hour. Not that The food delivery services are paying minimum wage ...

In one of the most expensive cities in the world, an on-demand courier is not going to be cheap. Even if they're on a bike.

What we're actually suffering from is that the cost of business and minimum wage has increased but the middle and upper wages have not. That, and the delivery services are a bit out of control. They're taking $10 out of every transaction to connect a web page to a mobile app.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not just delivery services, basically everything has been co-opted by tech bros that take a huge cut for transactions that are between two parties that have nothing to do with them, just for providing a "shiny" platform. Hotel bookings, AirBnB, marketplaces, Uber, and so on and so forth. All platforms that could be managed by 3 Devs in a basement, or public and managed by the government, but somehow they require 10k employees and vacuum up billions?