Silicon Valley Turned Your Burrito into a Capitalist Nightmare
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#2Can see the author's point, but I know people in their late teens who never would have bothered ringing up restaurants to get things delivered. They only do so now because its a single app with many choices ... similar to Uber in this regard - they managed to augment an existing service with a cool smartphone app & location tracking.
Re: Silicon Valley Turned Your Burrito into a Capitalist Nightmare
#3Ah yes, another 2000 word screed on how absolutely horrible and inhumane it is to order food from an app. This is the same genre of writing about how the latest iPhone is garbage or the touchpad on the MacBooks is proof of societal collapse.
It’s wonderful that in 2019 these are the issues people care about. It shows how pleasant our lives have become.
Re: Silicon Valley Turned Your Burrito into a Capitalist Nightmare
#4After a few bad experiences, I only call the restaurany directly to order now. A lot of these apps show choices that the restaurants may not have and they end up giving you an inferior substitute. If I have a good experience, I often just stick with that restaurant/order forever since I know its reliable.
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#5Food delivery was broken - only a few restaurants did it. Now almost all of them can do it. That is truly disruptive. Does it suck sometime? Yes, probably even more than Sal's Pizza on a busy midterm week. But that you can do it at all, that's new and different. There will be growing pains of course.
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#6I don't know why this irked me so much, but it did:
> the roughly 50-square-mile area surrounding the San Francisco Peninsula
SF itself is around 50 square miles. I know the article probably means something like "the area within 50 miles of San Francisco," but an editor should have caught this.
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#7I agree and disagree. Doordash have opened up deliveries from restaurants that would have never hired their own drivers. On the other hand their delivery mechanism sucks. Almost every other order is messed up. Yesterday, after a 2 hr delay, in which time there was to way to contact customer service, my deliver was abruptly cancelled. Imagine a toddler at this time. Also, most of the time the food arrives cold or there are items that are incorrect. It is bizarre
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#8At Hacker News, we sleep well in the confidence that if people didn't want the miserable existence of being a delivery app driver, they would've learned to code and made their own delivery app.
Re: Silicon Valley Turned Your Burrito into a Capitalist Nightmare
#9I don't know why this irked me so much, but it did: > the roughly 50-square-mile area surrounding the San Francisco Peninsula SF itself is around 50 square miles. I know the article probably means something like "the area within 50 miles of San Francisco," but an editor should have caught this.
But you can pick 50 square miles of the Bay Area they have most of the relevant tech headquarters
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#10> Look, there’s a machine in our pockets that allows us to take a thousand photos a day, access the world’s information, and do things we never could have dreamed of in the past
None of these things originated in Silicon Valley.