Correction: pay back a small percentage of what you stole
This whole tipping culture is reaaaallly hard trying to land here northern EU and I absolutely hate it, I refuse to tip anyone. Employers, pay your employees a living wage, it shouldnt be up to customers generosity. You cant? Then sounds like you should charge more of your customers, downsize your business until you can… or go out of business, since sounds like your profitable business is not actually profitable.
Of course there’s always the option of begging the government to bail you out, and then they do for some bizarre reason.
We live in a capitalist society for individuals and socialist society for corporations, which feels the wrong way round.
We have a legal system that protects the rich and punishes the poor. Luigi gave us a taste of what the opposite could look like.
Should I DM the mod of this community and double check if it’s okay for me to upvote? Oh silly me… this is lemmy. Of course it’s okay to upvote this fact of life!
I’m assuming this is a reference to something that I’m going to say Reddit has done?
Reddit started sending out warning messages to people who upvote posts with the word “Luigi” in it and I believe you can now get full on banned for upvoting too many posts that say “Luigi”.
“Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility” Ambrose Bierce
Wage theft is bigger than all other theft, but far fewer people are dragged onto the sidewalk and strangled to death for it. Maybe that should change.
Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure during the last days. Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.
James 5:1-6
Dayum! New favorite bible passage for being obnoxious towards hypocrites with just dropped!
And by “just” I mean “a thousand years ago”, or whenever that part of their book was written 🤷
“When the truth walks away, everybody stays 'cuz the truth about the world is that crime does pay. So if you walk away, who is gonna stay? 'Cuz I like to think the world is a better place.”
Underrated Offspring jam! I feel like Offspring get written off as pop-punk but are generally underrated as political artists.
Listening to that album nowadays is hair-raising. It’s almost as though people have been screaming in Americans faces for decades about what’s becoming impossible to ignore, I know I was singing these lyrics since 1999:
"Well, I’d like to tell you all about my dream
It’s a place where strip malls abound
And diversion’s mere moments away
Where culture’s defined by the ones least refined
And you’ll be left behind if you don’t fit in
It’s all distorted in Americana my way
Well, fuck you
Whoa, whoa, whoa, well, my dream has come true
Whoa, whoa, whoa, my vision has come true
Now give me my cable, fast food
Four-by’s, tat’s right away
I want it right now 'cause
My ge-generation don’t like to wait
My future’s determined by thieves, thugs and vermin
It’s quite an excursion but it’s okay
Everything’s backwards in Americana my way
Well, fuck you
Whoa, whoa, whoa, well, my dream has come true
Whoa, whoa, whoa, my vision has come true
Yeah, it’s all coming true
I’m a product of my environment
So don’t blame me, I just work here
But I wanna fuck it up
My rights are denied by those least qualified
Trading profit for pride but it’s, it’s okay
Everything’s backwards in Americana my way
Well, fuck you
Whoa, whoa, whoa, my nightmare has come true
Whoa, whoa, whoa, my nightmare has come true
Yeah, it’s all coming true
Yeah, it’s all coming true"
Few things.
- Corporations are not people. Laws need to change and loopholes need to be closed.
- The rich need to pay their way. Laws need to change and loopholes need to be closed.
The question is how are we gonna go about that.
All I can tell you is it has to get a lot worse before it gets better. I don’t see change coming without bloodshed because those in power and their enablers don’t want either of those things to happen.
I’m sure this global company only did it in NY for some reason though, better not look into this globally. Wouldn’t want to do that now!
Maybe only NY had the foresight to make this practice illegal?
This is why, regardless of who delivers food the few times I order out, I always tip in cash (don’t have to claim it, company can’t steal it.)
Despite living in a country where cash is practically non-existent (Netherlands), this is my reason for keeping a cash-jar.
US workers do have to claim tips though. Whether they do or not, and how enforceable that is, is a different story.
Canada here, I believe ours do as well, but easier to hide when in cash and company can’t steal it. I had heard of this when DD et. al. was relatively new and decided then cash was the way. It is up to the employee to do or not do
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise
They steal from everyone. My wife was stuck in a hotel with no room service about a year ago and didn’t feel up to walking for food. She found that she could get a free year doodash subscription through her Amazon Prime. She joined, got her food and promptly cancelled the subscription. We’ve just been through the joy of getting a refund for two months of doordash that hit our credit card.
I mean, that’s basically how the entire hospitality industry operates at this point.
“If it’s done out of greed, they let you do it”
Also I believe I found the related source: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2025/attorney-general-james-secures-1675-million-doordash-cheating-delivery-workers
I didn’t see anything on a quick read about how they came up with these numbers, or if there are any more serious penalties. Seems like a pretty light penalty.
Good for them. And you’re not employees. It’s gig work. If you’re living off dashing you’re the loser.
Hello bootlicker, you don’t get any prizes for sucking the parasite corporations dick. Did you know that?
“a company is literally stealing from you and breaking the law? You are a sucker”
I really really hope hope you get to sit on the other side of the fence, just so you can reconsider.
Parasites
Deny them engagement and profit… Food delivery is peak luxury service but yet the normie keeps wasting money on it while crying about being poor lol
Like many convenience services, it’s important that it exists because some people genuinely can’t walk or can’t walk all the time, can’t chop their own fruit and veg, etc. Or genuinely don’t have enough time in the day to cook or pick something up. But people will still use these things for simple luxury reasons.
Those are fringe use cases. Majority of it is conspicuous consumption.
Also, grocery stores sell prepared foods and there other options for these people. Why are they choosing most expensive one?
I mean, most everyone will be disabled at some point in their life. They’re also useful for the average person when they’re sick and don’t have anyone to take care of them. I know I’ve struggled to feed myself when I had the flu or covid.
But even if they are indeed fringe use cases, those services do need to exist for those cases. And restricting them isn’t very helpful either way because applying for any sorts of benefits is often difficult and/or degrading for many disabled people. BUT: we should still encourage those who CAN avoid this stuff to do so, since they are indeed damaging to worker’s rights and the environment.
Nobody suggested Amy restrictions
Me thesis is that vast majority of the users of these services are broke people who have no business using them but the conversation always devolves into some fringe cases needing them…
It is a free market to waste your money as you see please but in current economic context, it is clowny to be whining about being broke and then using thee services.
Who’s down voting this 😂 Big food delivery bots? Or are there really that many people who hate hearing the truth?
Got a few people big mad about it too
Clearly an unpopular opinion lol
Anecdotally, the people I know who order door dash multiple times a week are also people who frequently complain about money
that’s really not the problem here, and do you believe the grocery monopolies wouldn’t do this same shit? that they don’t already?
I am suggesting viable substitution options which is the grocery store prepped food which also does delivery
in the same way taco bell is a substitute for mcdonalds.
this is only a substitute if you assume the problem is poor people having treats, and not employees being fucked out of their pay. if you assume the problem is delivery staff being fucked out of their pay, the problem, and in many cases exact companies/staff, are the same.
I am not even getting into how shiti these parasite treat the workers.
Just merely notting that getting slop delivered by doordash is the most expensive option on the market, everyone is bitching about being poor then proceeda to defend using this trash service
Which is also terriable for the worker on top of that
this isn’t about bitching about being poor, and being worn down to nothing and badgered and bullied by advertising until your will to resist wears out isn’t something you should blame the victim for. if you want to bitch at people about consuming beyond their means, yell at an ad-man.
or, when they start using drones, start stealing the drones. and also maybe the food.
