Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey
Elting@piefed.social 1 day agoI could feed 10 people ribs and potato salad and it wouldn’t even come close to breaking a hundo (I usually feed more on labor day). That is the power of doing your own cooking.
What if the customer is incapable of some or all of the chain of tasks required to produce the home cooked equivalent?
Could be they work pretty much their whole waking life, running 3 or more jobs.
Could be they’re disabled and can’t do grocery shopping, or food prep, or cooking.
Before you judge someone, spend a few minutes imagining why exactly the circumstances are the way they are, and aim for a bit beyond the hateboner fantasy you already had in mind, yeah?
You have really made a character there. My 90 yo grandma gets by on getting her groceries delivered. Most places do that themselves since the pandemic (or you can get curbside.) and you dont even have to pay doordash for it.
My aunt did fine getting shopping delivered, until she had a stroke that took out 20% of one hemisphere. Using a kitchen knife after that was downright dangerous. Is she supposed to avoid providing pizza or similar for her kids’ birthday parties in your world?
Just one real world example that took me but seconds. Think beyond your bubble.
If for some reason you can’t boil an egg, or use a microwave, then you should be in an assisted living situation and you are beyond having doordash be a lifeline for you. There is just no scenario in which doordash is an essential service and not an unnecessary convenience. Also most pizza places have and always will do their own delivery (and they pay their employees more because they don’t get to count it as a gig job.). Im not against getting shit delivered, just against paying a middleman for it.
It is crazy how much of a price difference there is in between ordering and shopping/cooking. We’re really lucky to have a weekly farmers market with an incredible fish stand. They sell better quality and cheaper fish than Whole Foods so that compounds our savings too.
MartianRecon@lemmus.org 6 hours ago
Well look at you. Why’re you judging someone on buying something and not someone stealing something.