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Uber and DoorDash did exactly the same thing as what you somehow find “interesting and important” when done by someone else, but you don’t care. Because, you know, brilliant disruption tech? Or what?

https://support.google.com/business/thread/5820393/doordash-...

Except it’s an industry/practice of the big ones:

* https://www.eater.com/2020/1/29/21113416/grubhub-seamless-ki... * https://www.eater.com/2015/11/11/9714840/in-n-out-doordash-d...

This is something some delivery apps have been accused of doing though.

https://www.eater.com/2020/1/29/21113416/grubhub-seamless-ki...

I find it absolutely hilarious that you're doing the exact thing you're railing against in two sentences flat.

Also, I'll give you that he does hand-gesture grandly in this Twitter thread, but he co-wrote a whole book about it called Chokepoint Capitalism. There's a lot more detail about it there, and the logic there applies here.