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So while Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb are getting killed by lack of business, the food delivery companies are getting killed by too much? So much for the gig economy. It's almost as if there's something structurally unsustainable about these companies.



The ULA triumvirate is different from the others. There are few businesses that can survive prolonged quarantines without outside help.

The fact that delivery business is having trouble in the most fecund business state is a testament to the (non) viability of the business as structured.

In other places food delivery is assisted not by expensive four-wheeled vehicles but by cheap two and three-wheelers.


Yes, the ULA triumvirate were profitable because they simply ignored those pesky laws that cut into their margins.

Food delivery doesn't have any laws you can break in order to make your service more profitable.




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