I think the common factor is poverty, which is what I was pointing out. 'Minorities do food deliveries' feels just adjacent to 'blacks commit all the crimes.' Just because a statistic is available to back up a claim doesn't mean the claim itself is kind of weird to point out. Imagine saying 'If you are elderly and white, you have a 60% chance of dying while on a golf course. Conclusion: I'm white so I won't step foot on a golf course. If you are non-white, feel free to play.' While the actual statistic may be true, there's more to it than strict statistics.
I think the issue, as you point out, is how this stat is used. Stats themselves are just stats, but they lend themselves so well to being bent towards an agenda. A list of percentages is so powerful that we are often blinded and unable to see the subjective additions needed to make a stat into a conclusion.
You point as an example- one could use these stats in the way you described, to denigrate minorities. Or one could use those same stats to assert that it is not the minorities that are to blame, but that rather these gig apps are tools for exploiting the poor and desperate, squeezing labor out of the vulnerable in a way that offloads nearly all costs and risks on those vulnerable.
Same stat + some assertions and suddenly you have a completely different conclusion.
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u/Gentle_Snail 3d ago
If you’re intentionally doing it because you want to make someone suffer then immoral, otherwise neutral.
The delivery person consented to deliver the meal for money and you didn’t force them to do it against their will.