An interesting take: the government is proposing minimum wage standards for gig workers. The paper went with 'Now you might have to pay up to $15 to get fast food delivered'.
That's nothing. Me and my 100 siblings worked 26 hours per day, and when we went home, our father would kill us, right there and then.
But you try and tell kids that these days, and they don't believe you!
How dare companies be made to demonstrate their businesses viability by paying an actual wage! /s
I expect nothing less than this hack story from The Stokes Post.
If you use Uber Eats or their equivalents you deserve to pay through the teeth. They have been fucking restaurants and their drivers/riders for years, only right they now fuck the customers.
Plenty of food options delivered already using their own staff who, for the most part, were covered under existing labour laws. You honestly need cold McDonalds delivered to your house on a rainy night by a guy on a pushbike who is getting paid fuck all?
If you support these companies it means supporting their abhorrent labour practices, in which case I hope you tear up your own employment contract and ask your boss to cut your wages and move your desk outside. We didn't get where we are today by being individualistic little shits, it was workers united in Unions that won us the rights we enjoy, and with those rights comes the responsibility not to sit and watch other workers get fucked but rather rather standup and support them.
I am 100% fine with paying more for my food to be delivered if it means these workers get better rights. Solidarity forever.
I tried a few food delivery mobs a couple of times, they were consistently shit at actually doing the thing they say they do, and they were expensive.
So now if I want delivery, I find a local food joint that delivers the food themselves. If the place I want doesn't deliver , I get off my fat arse and get it myself. I find that also helps me decide if I really want it or not.
Here is the actual article, but it's pay-walled.
Edit: Non-paywalled link.
