1.b1 I Hate DoorDash
It makes me feel like I'm in every neo-liberals's favorite feel-good dystopia, Wall-E.
Never experience lack sometimes. Never go without. Commiserate with your friends about how the gig economy is slowly eating us alive, economically and psychically, before you redeem your $5 off coupon for DashPass.
I'm no better of course; I'm not saying that I don't participate in lateral exploitation from time to time. But 1.b1a We are all lonely together and technology only understands 20221014171207-The-simplest-form-of-choice; you are either in or out, on or off, interested or not, freeloading or paying.
I guess what I'm saying is that there isn't a great way to engineer chance encounters and unexpected opportunities that come when directly interacting with people, and this just feels bad to me. Probably because 5.a1a I'm tired of mediating relationships through a screen, and because 6. The internet is insane.