Uber eats etc pulled all the money out of the community. No longer does the restaurant make money and pay a little bit to the driver, who back in the day might have been the owner or the owners kids. No, now the restaurant margins are impossibly thin and so the food is shit, and the driver isn't an employee and spends it all on gas and oil changes.

Uber eats takes all the money and sends it to investors.

Uber and all the other Ubers for X no longer provide a service. They made an app that helps deliver goods and services, but now what? If we nationalized these companies and made them owned by the people, or the people in that industry, we could actually keep the money in your own city.

Instead we have $80 pizzas and poor, disaffected workers.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I agree with you until you said to nationalize Uber eats lol. Just stop using it.

[–] maltasoron@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, we can just go back to the restaurant hiring their own delivery people.

[–] LegionEris@feddit.nl -1 points 1 year ago

Except almost none of them did. You're suggesting going back to having next to zero food delivery options in a world that continues to see COVID spikes and could have future localized lockdowns. I also think this overlooks how much of a QoL increase these services are for people with limited transportation options or mobility problems or other health issues making it hard for them to get out of the house. These services are more than just conveniences to them. They are massive upgrades to their lives.

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's a useful (though non-essential) service that leans toward a natural monopoly. Nationalisation or heavy regulation are the solutions to this.

Under regulation, profits flow to shareholders. Under nationalisation, they flow to treasury. Practicality of nationalisation in the current climate aside, I know which I'd prefer.

[–] AlDente@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, just let it die. Please don't force the rest of us to pay for this.

[–] LegionEris@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a profitable service, like the post office was before they were sabotaged with pension requirements. Users would still be the ones paying, but a greater portion of the profits could go to the workers, and the remainder would go to public projects and other government expenses. That would be preferable to the services being used to continue drawing wealth and power from the working classes to the already wealthy and powerful. The only time it might end up subsidized is if it had to be commandeered for a public use purpose like delivery of food and living essentials during a disease outbreak.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In what way is it a natural monopoly?

[–] Pipoca@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Economies of agglomeration, similar to Amazon. Having one app to order everything from is very convenient and the average person prefers that.

[–] UristMcHolland@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

If they nationalize Uber before Amtrak, I'll blow a gasket

[–] neptune@dmv.social -1 points 1 year ago

Why not both

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Or the fast food places could employ a delivery driver or two, like they used to. Or still do, in the case of most of my local places.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I had an item in my Amazon cart yesterday morning. Wait until the end of the day to order, in case I wanted other stuff. When I came back, it notified me the price had risen from 30USD to 50USD.

I searched for the item again, checked it, and it was 30USD.

the fuck

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Camelcamelcamel always

[–] ech0@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I prefer keepa. Browser extension puts a price history graph right on the Amazon page

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 year ago

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you want to round up to the nearest dollar for a donation so we can have a bigger tax write-off and gain profit rather than us just paying our employees better?

[–] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I think they'll round up to the next thousand dollars. They don't seem like they figured that math thing out yet.

[–] denissimo@feddit.de 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't have the disposable income for ordering or even takeaway anymore and the fees only get worse from here. Learn how to cook. Impress your visitors. Get nice things in life with the savings.

[–] DulyNoted@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunate but this is the truth. Too many of us have been accustomed to small luxuries like "affording takeout", but we unfortunately have been priced out of being able to afford stuff like this.

It's a tough pill to swallow if you've been doing it your whole life and think that a functioning adult with a full-time job should be able to afford some takeout every now and again. We are not the generation that gets to enjoy that privilege, it seems.

[–] PreachHard@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Also you reset your taste buds and come to realise how greasy and sugary everything is that you don't make yourself or eat out at a nice place.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My 3rd Date Dessert: New York Style Cheesecake Stuffed, Chocolate Covered/Sealed, Graham Cracker rolled, Strawberries.

You can't buy these things anywhere, and I have yet to meet the woman that isn't immediately impressed when I whip those out.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

don't pay them for failing infancy