How quickly we accepted that it’s normal to pay someone to go get our groceries for us. To drive us around when public transportation is available. To run errands for us. To bring us fast food.
Covid capitalized on it.
People don’t want to give up that luxury now that they’ve had it. Even if it makes things cost 2x-3x as much.
Even when we all know its exploitive labor.
It’s true delivery and driver services have been around for hundreds of years but now instead of companies with full time employees (with benefits) , the gig employee gets paid less while taking on risk that aren’t compensated by the employer (car accidents, gas, car repairs, injury or attacks).
Gig work is a much worse thing than maybe a lot of people realize. And it’s also making more people servants to others.
It’s moving full time employees with benefits and using company property to no benefits and using their own property that they have to pay for.
I recently saw a presentation form Uber executives panicking because Indian government launched an Uber competitive app, but that takes no cut at all, 100% of what customer pays goes to driver.
Did you know, the government of any country can do this for any service? Government sponsered amazon anyone?
Yeah Uber (thankfully lol) actually died in a ton of countries because of this.
Either government sponsored or just local competition that actually pays well.
There’s even tiered niches for each app that go for quality/speed etc, so no one app becomes supreme.