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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Walk 10 mins...? What bull shit magic fantasy land do you hail form that ANYTHING is a 10 min walk away. The nearest fast food to me would be like just shy of a 2 hour walk at an avg pace.
For most people getting anywhere is like 8-12 miles here in America if not further.
Pretty much every country except for the USA seems to be a bull shit magic fantasy land. At least when living in any kind of larger city.
The US is doing very badly. Growing up it was a 3 mile walk to the nearest gas station let alone anywhere that served food.
Usually was unsafe to walk that since there were no sidewalks and I'd be charged by at least 3 dogs in the way.
One time I tried to start exercising and decided to walk down my road. I had a cop circle me for 20 minutes, and 3 people offered me a ride which was nice but they were so confused that I was just walking
Canada is the same as USA in that regard. The only restaurant in 10 minutes walking distance to my place is Wendy's. Anything good is 30 to 60 minutes walk or 5-10 minutes drive.
Hi, yes, that's a very USian issue. We here don't believe in the separation of residential and commercial areas.
Sim City taught me that causes something called “congestion “ and the sims get pretty pissed about it.
While I think these apps are exploitative on both sides (exploiting laziness/convenience and exploiting workers), I think implying that people who use delivery services are racist, classist, or both, is a very "internet" thing to do.
Perhaps it would be healthy if OP went outside for Christmas. A little walk in the real world, as opposed to Lemmy or Twitter or Bluesky, might help rebalance things.
Consider folks with disabilities or those who don't own cars. I really don't see the problem of a delivery service like DoorDash or UberEats that would pay its workers a living wage.
The reason those are unethical is that they don't treat their workers as employees, and don't pay enough. If someone started a generic-delivery service that used employed workers that are paid a living/thriving wage, didn't request tips, had set fees, had customer service reps, and maybe had workers wear cams while on the shift as a security measure... would that not be worth supporting?
If we all stop using the app, does it benefit these gig workers?
No, but the social conditions that allow the gig economy to even exist hurts gig workers. As usual, a systemic issue is being framed as a matter of consumer choice.
Outrage successfully manufactured!
(It’s far more racist to assume only minorities work for Door Dash than it is to imply whatever the fuck this shit tier meme is trying to say)
It’s far more racist to assume only minorities work for Door Dash
Yeah agreed. Racial profiling is still racial profiling, using euphemisms like "lower class" and "minority" instead of the usual slurs doesn't make it okay.
"Make"? Are they not being paid?
I don't use them myself but if someone wants to pay someone else to go pick up food for them who gives a shit?
white poor people work door dash all the time….
btw, MLK Jr started the poor people’s campaign shortly before he was assassinated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_People's_Campaign
If the middle man app wasn't so exploitative, I don't see what the issue is.
We've had delivery as a middle class job for decades with milkmen and paperboys, the issue is that those jobs aren't paying living wages anymore.
Well look at Mr(s) Fancy Pants living somewhere walkable!
Who ask for delivery from a store that's 10 minutes walking?
More like one hour walking, any food would be long cold before I come home. And I don't own a car. The delivery comes usually by motorcycle in something like 5 minutes in an specialized bag that keeps warm.
I've got friends that work on the corporate side of DD, and they tell me it's super common for people to order things from places even closer than this. We figure it's likely people that are high, but disabled is another possibility. Oh, and people in hotels ordering from places they can see from their room lol
Who ask for delivery from a store that's 10 minutes walking?
Me when I am way too sick to cook let alone move
I recently did that due to a leg injury and the fees hurt more than the leg. (I'm getting better)
Cute you still think they’re a lower class than you.
the system thrives in creating subclasses so everyone can feel superior and want to preserve the system, less they become like "them", because they are better than "then".
Okay, that's just plain ol', made up non-sense. No one in the USA walks
Duh
And send a billionaire a third of your dinner money while you're at it!
Self righteous internet person:
“You should not be able to voluntarily work for some extra income because I find it distasteful.”
Yes instead of assigning blame where it belongs (who keeps wages so low necessitating the gig economy?), they decided to blame the consumer.
People that are stuck being reliant on gig jobs like doordash would be rather unhappy and become rapidly poorer if people decided to stop using these apps. But that's what always happens. If buisness collapses the worker suffers and the CEO walks away rich.
OP really decided to make a class issue all about race
I don't understand how anyone can afford fast food now days, let alone paying delivery fees and tips.
The entire concept of DoorDash in a car centric part of the world is mysterious to me. If I’m too drunk or stoned to drive I just go to sleep. I’m not spending $50 on a cold Big Mac.
Two semi disabled folks here, the services are a godsend but I always tip. People don't tip here, our last rider said we were the first tip in 3 days. :(
I wish that jobs like this were higher paid.
I'm disabled, and thus sometimes when I order food in this way, it's because it's literally the only way for me to access food. That means that in a sense, delivery workers are important components of the complex network of social care infrastructure, and that makes me all the more angry at how exploited these workers are.
I tip generously when I'm able to, but often that's not something I can afford. There's not very much that an individual can do to improve the working conditions for exploited workers, and that's true regardless of whether the person ordering the food is disabled or has some other need for delivery or someone who is just doing it for the convenience. It is possible for people to be able to order food for delivery at relatively affordable prices, and for the delivery workers to be sufficiently compensated for their labour, but that will require political change to counter the systems of oppression. Systemic problems can't be solved through individual action
You could've made this 'meme' with, literally, any service or product, couldn't you?
Nice bigotry, only "minorities" door dash?
The racism is in your head
We prefer the term "hard-working individual entrepreneur" - those apps, probably