Comment on Uber, Grubhub and DoorDash must pay NYC delivery workers an $18 minimum wage

• echo64@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If they leave, people are still going to want food delivered. The job still exists. Uber just isn’t their to skim their money and squeeze drivers dry

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Restaurants used to just have their own delivery drivers. Crazy, right?

    I delivered pizza and later Chinese food for years, working directly for a restaurant. I get the sense you got a way better level of service from that arrangement, as well, versus the Uber Eats randos you get these days. You sure as shit did from places where I was a driver.

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    • Holyginz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My wife and I have gone back to when we order food, like our pizza night, ordering directly from the place. I know the drivers are getting paid a decent wage and without all the extra fees it’s more reasonably priced. Plus the food actually arrives in a timely fashion and is still hot rather than the driver doing a bunch or other deliveries before us and the food being cold.

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      • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why is the Deliverator so equipped? Because people rely on him. He is a role model. This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it – we’re talking trade balances here – once we’ve brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they’re making cars in Bolivia and microwaves in Tadzhikistan and selling them here – once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel – once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani bricklayer would consider to be prosperity – y’know what? There’s only four things we do better than anyone else:

        music

        movies

        microcode

        high-speed pizza delivery

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• PeachMan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doubt it. NYC is an enormous market, 10 million people (20 mil if you count people that commute to NYC for work). They might add extra fees, though.

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• bob_wiley@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The point is realising that you can pay a liveable wage and still be profitable.

    So if all this happens, that’s great.

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