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Free Delivery: Post something about the exploitation of gig workers, and you’ll receive a lifetime supply of hideous takes about how ‘things were so much worse’ before uber: ‘my latte delivery / 2 block car ride was a *nightmare*’.
Thinking about themselves, for convenience.
That’s buying into the Model, until the bitter end.
@blabberlicious It is reminiscent of the post-war one comments in diaries about how people were finding it hard to make do without servants.
@Printdevil
Yea. A bit gutting that (some) of the younger generation seem to have bought into it.
(Runs for cover)
@blabberlicious when the lockdown was over here, people queued unacceptably close for a considerable distance to go and drink barista coffee on the pier, with drawn desperate faces, as if their souls were in peril because of the lack of it. It was all 20-30 somethings, all pinning some psychic wellbeing on it. I drink coffee but the latte-ritualism eludes me.
@Printdevil
I can understand that, to a certain extent. But when you paid to have some tired, grubby gig worker 5p to deliver it to your door because of your epic hangover, count me out.
See it all the time, here.
@blabberlicious I feel guilty getting anything delivered really. I always feel I am in some way letting the side down. I'm not sure what that is about, I think it's some 70s thing.
@Printdevil
Devilled Eggs and Prawn cocktails wouldn’t have travelled well 
@blabberlicious Honestly how would you have known. They didn't look great to begin with.
@Printdevil
At the end of my street, 10/20 delivery mopeds regularly accumulate.
Working on my fence this weekend, I got a procession of ‘concerned’ neighbours, stopping to tear into the ‘problems’ these young blokes cause. Drugs, intimidation, etc.
All bollocks.
When I rail on the real perpetrators: the multi tiered exploration machine, and its complicity with wage/immigrant slavery, they look nonplussed.
So much easier to lay into the weakest, when the real shitbags are insulated.
@blabberlicious that's because it doesn't have a face. It's generally speaking easier to hate things with faces. Lazyhate. They're out protesting asylum seekers here all the time, rather than the regimes and wars.
@Printdevil
It’s the perfect delivery system. 
