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Katzastrophe@feddit.org 1 week agoDude, my driving instructor charged less than a Taxi and that guy was charging in the triple digits per hour, it is insane as to how Taxis are still in business. Who the hell pays those prices?
Kiosade@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I don’t know but probably the same people that use the Uber Eats type services. Seriously, how are people affording to pay $25 for a $10 meal?
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The ndo Uber Eats a few times a week at work. It’s 100% about the time required to do anything else.
The average new house in the city I work for is about 6 million dollars, so I live about 90-minutes away in normal traffic where I can pay $750/month in rent. I work lots of hours (start at 8, usually leave between 6 and 8 with no real break between), so I’m looking at 14-16 hours between when I leave the house in the morning and when I return home. I also think ach night classes at the University on Mondays during the fall and Spring semesters, and have 3 night meetings a month between Council and Planning and Zoning. On the weekends I drive a couple hundred miles out of town to help with my parents.
If paying triple for a meal occasionally saves me 15-20 minutes it’s often absolutely worth it for the stress relief.
Kiosade@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Damn dude, I don’t know how you do all that! In any case I was just wondering more how people can afford to spend triple like… every day. Assuming one $30 delivered meal every day in a 30 day month, that’s $900 a month!
Rediphile@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
$900 a month is quite affordable compared to hiring a private chef. It’s all relative.
I’m cheap af, but that doesn’t make me ‘right’. If I made $1000/h or something it would make complete sense to pay $30 for a $10 meal each day if it saved me even just 15 minutes of effort that could be put towards working instead. In that case, I’d argue it would be ‘wrong’ and wasteful economically not to use the service.