This math doesn’t even include the time spent between taking gigs. Any wait time is paid for by the gig worker. Why would anyone do this?? Because income today puts food on the table and a roof over your head. Expenses like depreciation, maintenance, tires hit later.
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This is also why the gig economy has such incredibly high turn-over. Once you’ve put 100k miles on your car for peanuts, you’re suddenly hit with the bill for a new transmission or whatever. Wiped out. These companies chew through desperation and spit out destitution.
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The entire scam of “be your own boss” is just a cover for “cover your own expenses, shoulder your own risk, suffer built-up liabilities”. It’s a tag line that preys on people’s aspirations for a better life while giving them a worse one. It’s cruel, abusive, and exploitive.
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So here’s the kicker: You cannot profitably deliver food over a 10 mile distance for $5. A 10-mile delivery must at MINIMUM cost $5.80 for mileage, ~$7 for driver time, and let’s say $3.84 (+30%) for company overhead = ~$17. Would you pay that much for delivery of food?
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These companies are very popular because they sell $17 delivery services for less than half their production costs. And their only path to reducing losses is to exploit the gig workers harder. That’s why they keep cutting pay, asking workers to subsidize the unsustainable.
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It was a complete fantasy that suddenly everyone could afford a private driver, servants fetching food, and assistants running errands without workers being exploited AND simultaneously creating multi-billion dollar gig-app companies. Complete fucking fantasy.
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What’s your answer here? Raise prices 3-5x? End delivery/gig services? Hire them all as FTe’s? The problem you point out is clear but you’re not sharing any ideas or solutions of a better way. Given the voracity of your point it would make this thread more complete IMO.
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1800s: Yeah okay so child labor is bad and slavery isn’t great, but what’s the alternative?? Who’s going to make the matches and pick the cotton if not them? Who can afford matches made by adults or clothes from cotton not picked by slaves??
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What does it feel like to have created a hugely popular (and much loved!) framework that powers these types of business models that seek to exploit the working class?
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Doordash runs on Rails? That would be tragic.
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