• highenergyphysics@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    You are vastly overestimating the brain dead American population that will see the higher price, order delivery anyway, and then stop thinking about it.

    Like, they just don’t think about how it will affect their finances at all. People order takeout and delivery every day without a second thought.

    To be clear I am not victim blaming the poor, but we are beyond late stage capitalism here. They won.

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      10 months ago

      This is a defeatist take and while the answer isn’t a super simple “just tell people to not order out and cook more” we can definitely do more to help people stop relying on eating out and fast food.

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      10 months ago

      No. In the days you maybe added $3 to an order for delivery and added a tip. Now you pay a $5 delivery fee and tip plus 20%-30% markup. They cornered and ruined the market and only those with too much money will simply not care.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Except that’s not what’s happening at all. Go look at Just Eats stock price after aquiring grub hub for a few billion. Turns out, people actually do scoff at the delivery price of these services.