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[–] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

The expectation comes from SoftBank investing billions into Uber to kickstart the ride share industry.

[–] AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network 4 points 23 hours ago

If it were easier to walk or bike to get food it would be different. Sometimes I don't want to spend 30 minutes in a metal death box for a burrito. We cook most of our meals at home but occasional delivery is nice.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's kind of wild how the standard fare of pizza and chinese food delivery was absorbed by gig work. They used to be employees of the restaurant.

[–] Ansis100@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not sure about other places but here when you order pizza, it is MUCH cheaper to call the restaurant directly and have them deliver it. It's usually faster too.

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Technology should have made restaurant deliverer's lives easier and increased their efficiency. They should have made more money and worked less.

Instead we got gig workers who are basically impoverished wage slaves. They get no rights and no benefits. What is worse is whatever temporary profits they made have been sucked up by corporations by now.

This is a great case study for how to not use technology and how Tech Bros are not disrupters, they are destructors who profiteer, choke out, and then destroy markets.

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[–] Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 3 points 22 hours ago

I can't be arsed to wait for food delivery. I'll pick it up if I don't have the supplies and time to cook it. I was thinking I want a CWS for om Taco bell, but I still have planned-overs in my fridge. Also, the upcharge on food delivery apps are insane. I'll bake a frozen pizza instead for 5 dolla.

[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

We looked at GrubHub and said no when the delivery fee and tip would've been more than our meal cost.

[–] DigDoug@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (5 children)

...if you think delivery is too expensive, maybe don't get your food delivered, then? Just a thought.

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[–] remon@ani.social 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

What do you want to me to do instead? Cook myself all the time? Go outside? No thank you.

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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Is this about cars or society and industry? Because what if they're really efficient and have wheels and run on passive energy collected from the power of the sun and processed through rare minerals dug from the earth?

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Sustainably, in the ecological sense, has little to do with the energy source. Wheter its wood, coal, oil, hydro or solar, they can all be unsustainable. Cars have an ecological footprnt upon the earth that can't be sustainable (urban sprawl, etc). A good target would be an 80-90% reduction

Clean energy might help deal with emissions, but it does nothing to reverse deforestation, overfishing, soil depletion and mass extinction. A growth-obsessed economy powered by clean energy will still tip us into ecological disaster.” - Jason Hickel

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

In NYC this would just as likely be an ebike courier. Though the lines on bikes vs cars themselves are starting to get blurry we plug them in, charge them on coal in most places, barely use the pedals. Still way more efficient and less dangerous.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 125 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (39 children)

A lot of these are delivered by bike nowadays, no?

Edit: since people keep asking without reading below, I mean specifically in NYC.

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[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 18 hours ago

I mean its a thing useful for disabled people and even currently in NYC if the time limit to delivery was more variable a personal vehicle would be far from necessary given public transportation.

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