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
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.