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then we have fewer restaurants

No, we don't. People still have to eat. If anything, we have fewer restaurants today because of consolidation in the industry and the way massive-scale delivery enables ghost kitchens that take customers away from actual restaurants.

less economic activity

Uber Eats barely generates any "economic activity." It doesn't rate against the economic activity generated when people go outside.

less diversity

Now you're just making things up. People don't become Ethiopian because they sat on their couch to eat at Ethiopian delivery compared with actually going to an Ethiopian restaurant.

a less interesting life for everyone!

Leaving your house is more interesting than being inside. It's pretty much the definition of "living."




It’s -15 C outside here and the snow is blowing sideways. NO ONE is going outside to grab lunch. They’re all ordering Uber Eats. If Uber Eats didn’t exist they’d be eating egg salad sandwiches for lunch, not ordering a pizza from a place that pays a full time driver.


NO ONE is going outside to grab lunch.

Sure someone is. The Uber Eats guy. Because of you. Not considering other people to be equal human beings is the root of the problem.

Part of being an adult is to be prepared. Surely you knew it was going to be -15 more than an hour before you got hungry. You DO have a smart phone, after all. It comes with a weather app built in.

What do you think people did before we had smartphones? They didn't sit around and whine about the temperature and not eat lunch. They bought stuff ahead of time, including egg salad sandwiches.

Oh, the horror of having to pack a lunch like a caveman, and not a self-entitled knowledge worker!

I hope you somehow manage to recover. Perhaps clutching your emotional support water bottle will help.


The Uber Eats guy

Yes, my father is an Uber Eats guy. He depends on people ordering their lunch for his income.

I have nothing else to say to you.




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