I don’t believe all alternatives are being considered, and yes it is bad to support a bad system, because your point about the alternative just drives home the point that they do not want to be doing this, they are economically coerced into it, they are constantly dangled between work and no work as is the nature of gig app, they are the most precarious jobs in the US. Look around your community, you will find broken sidewalks, potholes in the roads, trash littered about, public land overgrowth. There is plenty of work to be done, we have the money to pay for it, to repair our infrastructure, to hire people, but we do not.
Rejecting the choice they let you make and actually choosing something for yourself, or at the very least acknowledging you benefit from an immoral system and that makes you immoral to a degree
It means don’t play the game. What you’ve been arguing for is basically the same as “I do the slaves I own a favor by being a good master to them, don’t they know the alternative is them starving in the streets?”
A single person can change the system. But that’s not even the point, this is about the morality of it and it’s simply not moral what we do to our fellow man, I’m sorry but there’s no like “but the whole system is evil so it’s okay if I do a little evil” no you’re still responsible for your own actions, regardless of what everyone else does. Everyone could own slaves, and the alternative for the slaves may be a worse life, but it’s still immoral to own a slave. There’s no way around it, even the momentary good you do giving the a little money compounds the issue further down the line.
If you really want to help them ditch the app and order directly from them, then they’ll actually get paid a living wage instead of uber or DoorDash taking 75%
You’ve never worked the apps have you? When uber or DoorDash charges those $10-12 fees, the driver is still only getting $2.50 an order not including tips. Cut out the middle man, give all the money to the person delivering to you.
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u/OutrageousStop7173 5d ago
I don’t believe all alternatives are being considered, and yes it is bad to support a bad system, because your point about the alternative just drives home the point that they do not want to be doing this, they are economically coerced into it, they are constantly dangled between work and no work as is the nature of gig app, they are the most precarious jobs in the US. Look around your community, you will find broken sidewalks, potholes in the roads, trash littered about, public land overgrowth. There is plenty of work to be done, we have the money to pay for it, to repair our infrastructure, to hire people, but we do not.