This. Gig economy bullshit because we can't pay people decent salaried wages with reasonable benefits / pension, don't have enough salaried jobs for productive causes (i.e., remaking the economy to be sustainable through revamping energy production and distribution, electrifying vehicular transit and building HVAC, rebuilding disintegrating infrastructure, building new energy efficient housing, expanding chip making capacity to any meaningful extent, etc.), shut down collective bargaining via unionizing at every turn, and instead overextend the existing workforce within the context of bullshit financialized industries jobs (i.e., propping up speculative financial markets like the stock market, crypto currency, commodity markets [especially oil / fossil fuels], and now the real estate market), funneling hundreds of billions / trillions of dollars that should be paid to the workers to do important problem solving work to an ever shrinking plutocracy that does nothing but fuck around making "deals" all day and playing golf.
Yeah honestly. Lived in the suburbs least year, was 20 minutes to walk to the closest store (which was a corner store, not even a grocery store). So times where I worked super late, or didn't have time to get groceries, I'd basically have to order UberEats.
more places need to do this. I think a lot of pizza places have gotten lazy on this issue, and just use doordash/etc. instead of their own drivers now because it's less work for the management. But it results in much higher prices for customers.
I love Slice. Supposedly, their restaurant fee is a flat $1.00 per order, too, paid for by the customer, so it makes me happy to order from there.
I do these still, because it's not THAT much more expensive than getting it in person after their discounts, even with tip.
Yikes. I suppose people spend money on all sorts of things, but yikes.
