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In the UK, if the government banned this, they would get accused of being a 'nanny state' and taking candy from babies.

In reality, people on long term sick benefits would use this service to order strong alcohol to be delivered to their door at 11 in the morning on a Monday, with them being three weeks away from their next benefits payout.

Food typically ordered with these services has no nutritional value with money from the local community going to venture capitalists and multinational companies, to keep poor people poor.

There is so much degeneracy to purge and no will in government to do it.

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Many years ago (80s) in the UK I remember my family and others had milk tokens to get formula milk or whatever. Each local convenience store used to exchange them for booze or cigs, at a high conversion rate obviously.

>Food typically ordered with these services has no nutritional value with money from the local community going to venture capitalists and multinational companies, to keep poor people poor.

>There is so much degeneracy to purge and no will in government to do it.

Isn't this a reflection of the restaurants in the area, rather than doordash as a platform? If you want to "purge" doordash on the basis that it's "degeneracy", shouldn't you do the same for all the restaurants that are supplying doordash?

>> Food typically ordered with these services has no nutritional value

This is complete nonsense. These services have a huge variety of restaurants and grocery stores. They're really useful for people with limited mobility who need groceries but don't have time to wait for a delivery from a large supermarket. Regardless, if someone wants to order cigarettes and alcohol on them they should be free to without having to account for your personal ethics.

"Typically".

In theory you could order extremely healthy food from these services. In theory these services could be a boon to disabled people that need to order extremely healthy food.

If you are a shareholder you might believe this. But, if you work with vulnerable people that have substance abuse issues and no income other than benefits, you know how it really works and who the customers really are.

Do you have statistics on hand? We know people order healthy food, and people order nutritionally void crap and alcohol. Without data, it's all meaningless conjecture.

So you're saying your view is biased based on your work.

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