Re:'Nobody Wants to Work Anymore' Meme Cites Real Newspaper ...
by ripe on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:19AM
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True story from the early oughts: a friend spent some weeks at the India office of his big US-based software company.
When you sent a document to the printer, an employee called a "peon" would pick it up and bring it to your office. He would also bring around tea and cookies in the afternoon. Now that's service!
The Ubers and doordashes and deliveroos of this world are predicated upon the growth of the precariat.
India had all this stuff 50 years ago, just without an app. I remember it not being unusual to have Starbucks delivered to your door in Buenos Aires in 2012. Again, no app.