I'm grinding to start a cooperative company with a non-abusive work philosophy.
I have respect for the people I collaborate with. It's easy. Yet so many managers and business owners rely on explicit abuse and manipulation... for what?
If it comes across that way apologies. I was honestly suspecting that the post I was replying to was being deliberately obtuse, but I guess it’s possible that this happened to them and it’s unduly salient as a consequence.
I didn't think I was complaing, just documenting my situation. I don't think having a cellphone and a credit card and friends and access to doordash puts me into some super privileged category among people posting here even if globally some people don't have running water or Internet.
Not sure how that makes me shallow but I'm all ears, I'd love to learn.
Maybe I'm reading into your actions and projecting my bias more than I intended.
When I used to order food through Uber eats I would always feel bad about it because the ultimate labor costs are abstracted through those layers of convenience.
If it is helpful, I consider fast online shipping to be unethical, and customer woes are misdirected at the wrong layer of abstraction, often ignoring the intensive labor costs because they are intentionally hidden.
That doesn't address why I'm shallow for describing my lived experience, or my extreme privilege because I'm someone who has access to, and has used Doordash. If you don't use their platform then the delivery people on that platform aren't getting jobs and aren't getting paid. If you want to help them, tip them 50% in cash.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, unfortunately, and we all take our stand where we choose to. I could afford a better phone, but since smarphones have matured, I chose to buy refurbished phones because of the slavery inherent in their creation. Buying refurbished phones minimizes that as best I can while not giving up modern conveniences. Similarly, I'm happy to use a restaurant's app/website instead of Doordash when there is one, but one of my favorite restaurants is only on doordash (Ben's Fast Food, which is delicious healthy food with lots of greens, they just have a terrible name).
I'm grinding to start a cooperative company with a non-abusive work philosophy.
I have respect for the people I collaborate with. It's easy. Yet so many managers and business owners rely on explicit abuse and manipulation... for what?
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