Uber Eats or something idk

Back in the 90s and aughts you could get pizza or Chinese delivered. Usually only at the cost of throwing a few singles for the driver. While it was probably exploitative of the drivers, it did not take 30% of the value of the meal and send it to a rich moron in Silicon Valley. It was not seen as super luxurious to get pizza delivered on a Friday night.

2019: you could buy a house if you never went to Starbucks!

2025: no one cares how much money you save working from home, get back to work, get back to the kitchen, deal with the tarrifs!

Tbf I can still just ask the pizza place and they'll deliver to my door at like €3 without ever having to use an app.

Boomer meme

I'm a middle aged man. I've paid my mortgage. I've got savings. My pension is doing alright. I've got my shit together.

I still eat beans on toast more often than I get a takeaway. You don't need to send half your dinner money to the silicon valley cunts that are fucking everything up. Support your local food places by going in, that way they get all the money.

This cost me 1.80USD. Turns out if the government works to keep food prices low and gets rent down to 300-400/mo in the middle of major cities, 1 person running a small busibess can feed a lot of people cheaply.

This is stupid. We pay other people to do things we can't or don't want to do all the time. That's what economy is.

The fact that people who order takeout could also cook at home instead doesn't diminish the impact of the inflation spikes that began with Putlers invasion. You can't fix the problems of neoliberalism on an individual level.

Burritos should ride on the bus.

New startup: BusGrub.
You put in an order for what you want and pick a timeslot a few hours in the future. E.g. for dinner, you put your order in at like at like noon and pick a 5-7pm window. Then, approaching your scheduled slot, a bus goes all around the area, picking up every order for that slot in the area, then swings around to each drop-off over the course of like two hours.
Result: Everyone enjoys cheaper, but gross soggy food.
Please give me $20 mil starting capital, thanks.
- This is like a food truck with extra steps.
- The indians kinda do this with trains

I notice that learning to cook is never an option

Some government hand out "baby kits" for newborns - cot, blanket, nappies, bottles etc.
I think they should also hand out "self sufficiency kits" to new adults - pot & pan, utensils, cutlery, self sufficiency book w recipes, salt/pepper/herbs, coffee, tea seeds, vouchers and some other bits & pieces. Basically something to foster some independence, interest in cooking, diet and other life skills in new adults. And the school curriculum should also foster life skills.
Doesn't stop people eating out or buying takeaways but it shouldn't be the norm.
- That's honestly shit your parents should teach you tbh. Though not everyone has a decent set so I agree on the school curriculum bit. Teach it in middle school for sure.
- Thats funny because Stalin did exactly that!
My niece was highly Uber eats dependent. Got her an air fryer for Christmas and it literally changed her life. Sometimes people want better but don't know how to get there
- We carry access to all the knowledge of the world in our pocket.
Vegan, here. If I didn't cook, I wouldn't eat.
buying groceries is also more expensive than it should be. you also have to take the time to go do that, and if you don't have a car youre not likely to be getting very much stuff. then, you have to prepare the food, cook the food, and clean up after. i dont know about you, but my prep space, cooking space, and cleaning space are all the same small counter. im perfectly capable of cooking a meal, but I also hate cooking and don't enjoy it, for all the reasons i just said.
- Make bigger batches and freeze portions. And whatever expense groceries are, you can expect food cooked by someone else and delivered by someone else to be 3x as much.
I'm so happy to have grown up in a country where not learning to cook isn't an option.
- I’m also from the US!

Op buys avocado toast

Millennial upvote farmer
- Avocado Toast Procurement Specialist and Millennial Upvote Farmer couple.
  House Shopping Budget: 1.3Million.

I don't get why people would waste money on delivery services. Would it kill someone to cook their own food, or collect food from a takeaway themselves? That's especially true for fast food where the fees & delivery charges could cost almost as much as the food itself.

It's nice as a "now and then" kind of deal. It's also a boon for elderly or disabled folks, especially for groceries. Or if you forgot your lunch and the traffic is heavy near your job to get food in time.
I'm sure many rely on it for a good reason. A food delivery company in my country partners with a charity to enable phone orders and free delivery to the elderly.

The costs of Doordash/Uber Eats gets socialized pretty heavily. Where I live, most restaurants just upped their prices 20-30% across the board to account for the DSP fees. Most of the time I'm ordering from Doordash, it's genuinely cheaper than actually eating in the restaurant

That's strange. Where I live, Doordash and all the other delivery services list higher menu prices than what you'll see at whichever restaurant you go to. If a menu item is normally $15, Doordash will list it as $18. This is before they even add the service fees.
- I think that’s probably everywhere. They passed a delivery service fee limit law here and parasites like DoorDash literally just whined about it in the app and added some additional fee right there.
Yup, I just jump from deal to deal and have Dashpass. Ends up being almost the same price as getting it myself.

Funny meme but also inflation is bad

Not necessarily, if you own a home AND your pay slowly goes up to compensate (both of these unfortunately aren't happening for a lot of people), relative to your income your mortgage goes down.
Or in more generic terms, inflation is good if you borrow money.
- Or in more generic terms, inflation is good if you borrow money.
  If your interest is less than inflation.
  Like my colleague who bought a house for about 1.5% before inflation nearly went to 10. Man.
- inflation is good if you borrow money
  at below the rate of inflation
  Inflation going to 2% to 6% when you've got a credit card with a 30% APY is of very marginal benefit.
- Inflation was added to your mortgage rate. And now that everyone saves with real estate instead of saving money, the cost of real estate is very high.
  So while your payments do go down over time, your hours worked to either rent or own have gone up.
No inflation would mean that we would have no interest on our bank accounts, no wage increases, no profit increases etc. It is part of the circular economy, and it can work according to that theory, but we all together need to reform starting with the massive companies.
This is true
Deflation is worse.
- Prove it.

Well inflation IS bad, and at least here is outstripping pay increases for most people.

But those burrito private taxis are probably one of the few things going up in price more slowly than, you know things you actually need.

I haven't gotten a raise in almost 10 years.
Different companies.
Moved to a different state.
Now I just can't find work period.
Inflation isn't the only problem.
- I am really sorry. I know how shit it feels being out of work. If you want to vent I'm here.

In this case however, both are bad.
- Both is good is more in reference to picking both as the problem is good. Not that either choice is any good lol.

I mean, both. Frivolous personal spending is bad. Inflation is bad. These two things are both bad, but not in scale. It's possible to say "Uber Eats is a waste of money", "Uber is a greedy corporation extracting money without value", "Corporate taxation has affected prices in a way that's negative to the consumer", and "Inflation and trade instability have made it harder to have the lifestyle we expect".

None of those are contradictory. Some can be changed on a personal level. Some need greater influence involved.

Says the guy who wonders if Smurfs fuck and talks to strange men in metal bunny costumes.

I don't think about fucking my family that's gross