People have had cars, addresses, and telephones for a century. Pizza and Chinese food have been showing up at people’s doorsteps for decades. Surely it seems like everything one would need to build a food delivery contracting company existed before the internet. What was missing that prevented me from ordering tacos by phone in 1995?
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I think the main thing is the ease of access. Door dash etc. didn’t get into it as an employer. It was mainly treated as a connection app. Connecting Jim who wants a a hotdog, Frank’s frankfurters who wants to sell jim a hotdog, and bill who is not going too far out of his way or decided that he wanted to spend his evening making a few extra bucks by ferrying food.
By their powers combined, Jim gets his pulverized meat in a tube. This isn’t how things are going though. There aren’t enough people who “just happen to be going that way” and have the app, and too many people using it as employment, so now we, as a government and a society, are figuring out what that means and how to treat it.
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