People love talking about how capitalism is efficient. If that's true, then why the fuck do we have hundreds of people doing the same work at different companies to achieve the exact same goal of having shit delivered to your place?

In a better world we'd develop one open source solution, constantly improve it for everybody and fork it for local specific needs. Maybe another team could come up with a replacement a few years in, once a clear advantage is visible using better tech, for example.

In a world where we're not enslaved by starvation wages I'd love to take a day of the week to deliver food for my fellow neighbors. Then another day to work on the latest requested feature in the delivery system.

Just type "delivery" on your app store to see what I'm talking about.

  • BillyMays [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Don’t worry they’ll consolidate to two and then work non competes for certain terf. That way everywhere you go it will only be one and they can price gouge you because they already bought off those local politicians.

    • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      When offerup and letgo combined, the resulting product sucks ass. They don't even let you write out reviews for people anymore. You can only press buttons for "showed up on time" or whatever. The search results are clogged with dark-pattern entries that redirect you to some external website