See https://chuangcn.org/2020/11/delivery-renwu-translation/ for another expose on the brutality of working conditions imposed on delivery workers in China, by a Marxist collective

  • fuckhaha [any,none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    The former is a marketing gimmick that hasn't turned out to be backed up by data. Not to downplay the benefit of feeling safer, but the actual incidence rate is not meaningfully different (especially if you consider traffic accidents a threat to safety: in this regard app taxis are worse). The latter is true if you have location services on (although in places with taxi ranks or hailable cabs that's much faster still), but anyway as I said, getting a taxi 5-10 minutes faster is something I don't care about or think is worth caring about, and in the case of it being easier, the time saving isn't even in that range, its closer to seconds. Silicon valley is good at making you think a thing that isn't really much better is '100x better' because that is the main thing they do: sell mundane marginal improvements as revolutions and hide the downsides.

      • fuckhaha [any,none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        There are advantages to both. For example its more convenient still to simply walk up to a car, or hail one, and get in. You don't need a functional phone or a bank account. You don't need to make any account at all. You don't have a predatory system tracking and keeping forever a record of every ride you take. You don't have a homogenous experience everywhere on earth you go.

        But in any case, my point is it may be a little easier, but I don't care. Its only marginally easier (although people insist it is revolutionary) and I am not obsessive about using slick interfaces to shave literal seconds off minor tasks, nor do I think it is a good thing to be.