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What a terrible thing to pay someone who really needs the money to do a fairly low effort task for you. Saying this as someone who has done plenty of delivery driving myself, this is a pretty stupid meme.

I don't mind the worker. It's the exploitative employer I take issue with.

• Nothing wrong with a service existing.
• Racist to assume that only people belonging to a certain race use these apps.
• The apps are exploitative, sure. Advocate for better labor regulations here.

This is the equivalent of saying "don't wanna make your own coffee? Go to Tim Hortons to be served by lower class Indians". Same message, but with the racism highlighted.

I have mobility issues, and neurological ones as well. It was a mistake for me to use DoorDash because it's convenient and for someone who suffers from being a shut in an expensive but perfect tool. I'd like food delivery though that wasn't explotive.

Fuck off.

Outrage successfully manufactured!

(It’s far more racist to assume only minorities work for Door Dash than it is to imply whatever the fuck this shit tier meme is trying to say)

While I think these apps are exploitative on both sides (exploiting laziness/convenience and exploiting workers), I think implying that people who use delivery services are racist, classist, or both, is a very "internet" thing to do.

Perhaps it would be healthy if OP went outside for Christmas. A little walk in the real world, as opposed to Lemmy or Twitter or Bluesky, might help rebalance things.

They can cook my food all day, but only racists have it delivered 😡😡

Walk 10 mins...? What bull shit magic fantasy land do you hail form that ANYTHING is a 10 min walk away. The nearest fast food to me would be like just shy of a 2 hour walk at an avg pace.

For most people getting anywhere is like 8-12 miles here in America if not further.

Two semi disabled folks here, the services are a godsend but I always tip. People don't tip here, our last rider said we were the first tip in 3 days. :(

"Make"? Are they not being paid?

I don't use them myself but if someone wants to pay someone else to go pick up food for them who gives a shit?

If the middle man app wasn't so exploitative, I don't see what the issue is.

We've had delivery as a middle class job for decades with milkmen and paperboys, the issue is that those jobs aren't paying living wages anymore.

Okay, that's just plain ol', made up non-sense. No one in the USA walks

Duh

what would marx do?

Who ask for delivery from a store that's 10 minutes walking?

More like one hour walking, any food would be long cold before I come home. And I don't own a car. The delivery comes usually by motorcycle in something like 5 minutes in an specialized bag that keeps warm.

Well look at Mr(s) Fancy Pants living somewhere walkable!

But I am le tired

white poor people work door dash all the time….
btw, MLK Jr started the poor people’s campaign shortly before he was assassinated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_People's_Campaign

And send a billionaire a third of your dinner money while you're at it!

One time I ordered lunch fron Doordash and it never came, I checked the food tracker and it was somehow in AUSTRALIA.

Cute you still think they’re a lower class than you.

We prefer the term "hard-working individual entrepreneur" - those apps, probably

Self righteous internet person:

“You should not be able to voluntarily work for some extra income because I find it distasteful.”

I wish that jobs like this were higher paid.

I'm disabled, and thus sometimes when I order food in this way, it's because it's literally the only way for me to access food. That means that in a sense, delivery workers are important components of the complex network of social care infrastructure, and that makes me all the more angry at how exploited these workers are.

I tip generously when I'm able to, but often that's not something I can afford. There's not very much that an individual can do to improve the working conditions for exploited workers, and that's true regardless of whether the person ordering the food is disabled or has some other need for delivery or someone who is just doing it for the convenience. It is possible for people to be able to order food for delivery at relatively affordable prices, and for the delivery workers to be sufficiently compensated for their labour, but that will require political change to counter the systems of oppression. Systemic problems can't be solved through individual action