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I find it amusing that one of Instacart's competitors, TaskRabbit, is currently blanketing the NYC subway system with ads that say "We do chores. You live life." The implication being, at least the way I read it, that they consider their workforce to be perhaps slightly less than human.

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"We do chores. You live life." The implication being that they consider their workforce to be less than human.

That doesn't follow at all. Just because people do chores it doesn't mean they aren't able to live or that they are less than human.

I'm struggling to understand how you can possibly jump from "we do chores; you live life" to "our workers are subhuman".

Are you saying that only subhumans do chores?

It was either: 1) A brainfart on OP's part or 2) You're watching someone who doesn't do chores pontificate on how bad "the poor people" have it.

If the people you hire to do your chores are doing something other than "living life", to me that implies they aren't really human. (Since living life is sort of part of the whole human thing.)

Cold logic. The advertisement defines life as something that is not doing chores. Therefore people who do chores are not living. Whether that makes them "subhuman" does involve some interpretation, but if you call someone "not alive" you aren't exactly complementing them.

Yes, they are all over the financial district in SF. They are odious, especially in contrast to the squalor and desperation of the surroundings (Bus stops full of the homeless and the working poor). Very American Psycho.

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