i think about it all the time

Steve Jobs is dead. Walt Disney is dead. I’m dead. — Penis Prager

Driving for uber eats is not a good job but I do appreciate coming into contact with so many cool restaurant workers that I wouldn’t otherwise see. Salute to our proletarian heroes

Hexbear People’s Committee to Define R&B when

What model year is yours? I noticed that the ~2010 ones have LED taillights. Thankfully with the 2013 and newer they went back to conventional bulbs, I just replaced one for $5. I have noticed that so many modern cars have terrible visibility, with tiny windows and low roof lines. I like being able to see

Crumble CooKKKies is such an excessive concept it seems satirical. A cookie store with a loyalty program where you pay $12 for three cookies. Their store is surrounded by an aura of Treatlerite particles. As someone who drives for uber eats I refuse to go in that cursed place

It literally is a joke, she’s a shitposter

Can you just walk off into the orangeness. Are there other “rooms”

ACAB

i want to go to the ethereal papaya “home”

i think my brain just picks a song at random to be stuck in my head each day, even if i haven’t heard it recently at all. today’s brain pick is I Need To Know by Marc Anthony

I wear a green field jacket and jeans all the time. Where’s my wife

At least we know it’s from the 20th century.

MRW someone asks what 2016 Rihanna and Drake song is playing

Anotha one… we the best music

I read “dni” as “do not interact”. i wouldn’t interact with her either

tfw you’re not a real doctor but you are a real worm

It seems to me that it is too atomized for organization to be practical. I’ve chatted with other drivers and of course we share a lot of the same concerns, but for every driver you see there are dozens more who you don’t. There isn’t a central forum for us to come together in. The system is designed for us to be out of sight.

I’m not an expert on the US economy but what I do think about a lot is “what comes next” for this hellscape of app-employers. For most of the existence of Uber and Doordash, we’ve had an economy that’s good for stocks but mostly shitty for the working class and precariat. The middle class has enough disposable income to keep ordering Uber while there are enough underemployed people desperate enough to drive for it. If Trump pulls a Milei and wrecks things, the underclass will expand while disposable income will decrease, which could kill the apps’ viability as there would be too many workers with not enough customers. Uber has only made a profit for two years after being in the hole for eight, under a shitty economy I could see them potentially going bust.

Another scenario is that the apps are regulated out of existence while the economy remains relatively stable, in which case I think you would see an increase in legitimate businesses and co-ops in the taxi and delivery space to meet the demand and us becoming official workers as a class. But this doesn’t seem too likely in the next four years under GOP control in the US.

I am curious what the Marxist intelligentsia thinks about the current state of app employers. I’m not an academic or an economist

This is the guy who nearly killed someone with an axe on daytime television

Yeah, it’s fucked. I drive for Uber and it’s degrading. Only about 10-15% of customers are nice and tip generously even though I’m polite and good at it, restaurant workers are so much nicer to me than the customers are. I feel like driving for an app makes people think of you as part of an underclass. I’ve had delivery jobs with an actual company and uniform before and people were much nicer to me then.

I can’t wait until these shitty companies are wiped out. People have gotten way too used to having underpaid app servants.