Unsustainable business is unsustainable. News at 5. Or 11. Or maybe noon. Whenever news that isn't really news is aired.
Even without the additional city-based fee, these food delivery services companies are far too expensive.
Even without the additional city-based fee, these food delivery services companies are far too expensive.
People in the 1930s came right out of the Great Depression with 25% unemployment rate. Stuff had to change, and radically at that, which is why FDR got elected.
Today's techies, meanwhile, are largely decoupled from the actual realities of the people. We live in decent homes with fat paychecks, and despite us working for the same company as the barely-surviving delivery driver, our lives rarely intersect other than at the next food delivery.
Because the "highly-educated techies" think of themselves as the next potential big founder over a tech company taking lumps of money from each transaction and making it big.
Closing that form of exploitation closes down all of those techies' wet dream of exploiting millions to be the next (pee-bottle) Bezos.
<Law implemented and jobs disappear>
“Well those jobs were bad anyway, we are all better off without them”
There are no “bad” jobs - just labor that needs to be done, with a commiserate price. If the labor is too difficult to find at a price, the price goes up. You can’t artificially increase the price without losing jobs.
What about fentanyl dealer? Hitman? Psychologist for a social media or tobacco company? Telemarketer?