How quickly we accepted that it’s normal to pay someone to go get our groceries for us. To drive us around when public transportation is available. To run errands for us. To bring us fast food.
Covid capitalized on it.
People don’t want to give up that luxury now that they’ve had it. Even if it makes things cost 2x-3x as much.
Even when we all know its exploitive labor.
It’s true delivery and driver services have been around for hundreds of years but now instead of companies with full time employees (with benefits) , the gig employee gets paid less while taking on risk that aren’t compensated by the employer (car accidents, gas, car repairs, injury or attacks).
Gig work is a much worse thing than maybe a lot of people realize. And it’s also making more people servants to others.
It’s moving full time employees with benefits and using company property to no benefits and using their own property that they have to pay for.
Gig work is absolutely fantastic if you get into the right type of gig work. And it allows people that wouldn’t be able to work to actually work and make money. If you’re paying for a service you’re paying for a service you have to think about it that way every business out there is some sort of service every business out there turns somebody else into a servant. You really think going to a restaurant and having a waiter take your order and bring you your food is not making them into a servant? You really think going to a grocery store and having somebody scan your groceries and bag your groceries for you doesn’t mean that you have two servants sitting there. What an idiotic thought to think that somebody working a job and doing something that they can do creates a servant out of them. Grow the fuck up.