On: Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage

[MattGaiser]

Merit for businesses is defined by consumer acceptance and consumers love these apps.

[_bxg1 → MattGaiser]

It's because the consumer experience is so subsidized. Consumers would also love an app that sends them $1.10 for every $1.00 they spend in it.

[Apocryphon → MattGaiser]

That's equating merit with user acquisition, which is the very thing that's fueling the (hyper-)growth of unsustainable unicorns!

[balls187 → MattGaiser]

Perhaps because ignorance is bliss.

I recall blowback when it was uncovered that DoorDash was not providing 1:1 amount of tips to their dashers.