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A comment on Denver’s e-bike subsidy program produced more new riders, fewer car trips. Parent comment

Re:Denver’s e-bike subsidy program produced more new riders,... by lostmsu on Friday March 03, 2023 @01:28PM (#35013283)
Extreme labor inefficiency. Today Amazon's driver can deliver an order of magnitude more packages than a person with a wheel barrow could. There are 100,000+ Amazon drivers in the US. You'd need at least 1,000,000 people with wheel barrows.
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Re:Denver’s e-bike subsidy program produced more new riders,... by komali2 on Saturday March 04, 2023 @02:06AM (#35018878)
That's true if we decide it's a good idea to continue to deliver millions of packages of small plastic goods every day. A big part of that is probably also due to the USA's massively isolating suburb design and poorly layed out roads.
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Re:Denver’s e-bike subsidy program produced more new riders,... by lostmsu on Saturday March 04, 2023 @09:27AM (#35020943)
So you think Amazon brings no value? I guess you never ordered anything from there?
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Re:Denver’s e-bike subsidy program produced more new riders,... by komali2 on Friday March 10, 2023 @07:54PM (#35103720)
I think in aggregate Amazon does more harm to our society than adds value. Its "value add" and service requires the degeneration of labor rights, a massive carbon footprint, and unethical shadow-UX practices on its own website.
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