“Strangely, for all the breathless press about the boom in food delivery services, there aren’t many articles on the exploitation that comes with them (food writers, bless their hearts, tend to get caught up in the minutiae of bread absorption rates and flavor-mixing quotients when reviewing services; the destruction of human potential often gets lost in the fray). It may be great that, in 2016, you can enjoy some gourmet eggplant parmesan on your couch, but at what cost? Did you look out the window when you ordered the eggplant parmesan? What was the weather? Did the minimum-wage messenger have to traverse through a blizzard to deliver it? Did you feel less guilty about ordering it because you didn’t have to speak to a human to do so? Did you not feel obligated to tip the driver because the app told you it was fine? Wouldn’t it be even more efficient for everyone involved if a drone could deliver the eggplant parm from a warehouse? Then no one would be inconvenienced, except the out-of-work delivery drivers.”
The above is from the website Eater and the article titled:
DELIVERY WEEK
Counterpoint: Don’t Order Delivery
The unspoken costs of getting another human being to bring food from a faraway restaurant directly to your couch. by Leah Finnegan Sep 29, 2016,
Written by a self-proclaimed 30 year old, I was surprised by the article saying that the delivery services that are in-between you and the restaurants are making a killing and killing the business on which they feed. I agree but i thought it was age and attitude that made me the lone holder of such an opinion.
Read the entire rant if you want to know how your order is being sourced out of Silicon Valley by faceless wealth and who is really benefit, in addition to you who has not moved from the couch.
http://www.eater.com/2016/9/29/13108262/counterpoint-dont-order-delivery