Post #3353057
2026-06-12 04:18 UTC
I worked delivering food when I was young, all food was able to be delivered way back. It was not just pizza and very common, DoorDash and the like have just gaslit everyone into thinking they are needed. I remember the small town I lived in even had a program to pay for cabs to get groceries for people with limited mobility (this was in the 90’s). We have abandoned working systems like meals on wheels in favor of for profit middlemen.
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@paraphrand@lemmy.world 2026-06-12 04:23
DoorDash supplanting meals on wheels is terrible. I don’t mean to argue otherwise. I think awareness of the options was really low, though. And that’s probally what I’m speaking to. And I expect my ignorance was shared. I see your point though. And I can see how I was speaking from ignorance there. While maybe more people are aware of a way to deliver food and basic supplies in the era of DoorDash, I never really meant to defend them. It just made sense to me that the pervasiveness of DoorDash is improving access. But it’s definitely not improving affordability. Not at all, holy shit.