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Re:Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19 by supernova87a on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @04:05PM (#23095650)
When a person starts to have discretionary spending power, or starts to feel to not have to be cheap any more, the previously unimagined items or services that one didn't feel one needed, inflate greatly.
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Re:Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19 by mcculley on Thursday May 07, 2020 @08:14AM (#23102107)
I get that. I enjoy same-day Amazon deliveries and other benefits of modern technology and industrial scale.

I'm still not going to have random middlemen hand-deliver terrible fast food for me.

When we have truly driverless cars and robots delivering food it will make sense to me. Until then, it's just an artifact of there being too much VC cash needing to be burned intersecting with laziness.

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