Obviously we can’t pretend that VC funded services like Uber are sustainable nor are the environmental and economic costs. But this aren’t new concepts. Pizza delivery has been a thing my entire life (I’m in my 40s) and services for the elderly, disabled, and needy like Meals on Wheels have also existed for a long time.
We should be having a lot of discussions about support for services like meals on wheels, or on sustainable means of making small courier businesses viable (via bikes or scooters maybe). Instead we constantly get sidelined into this “only the Treatler Youth use Uber Eats to feed your hamburger addictions, why can’t you just cook healthfully for yourself for every meal?!” version of discourse that doesn’t help anyone and doesn’t advance the needle on any actual solutions.
Obviously we can’t pretend that VC funded services like Uber are sustainable nor are the environmental and economic costs. But this aren’t new concepts. Pizza delivery has been a thing my entire life (I’m in my 40s) and services for the elderly, disabled, and needy like Meals on Wheels have also existed for a long time.
We should be having a lot of discussions about support for services like meals on wheels, or on sustainable means of making small courier businesses viable (via bikes or scooters maybe). Instead we constantly get sidelined into this “only the Treatler Youth use Uber Eats to feed your hamburger addictions, why can’t you just cook healthfully for yourself for every meal?!” version of discourse that doesn’t help anyone and doesn’t advance the needle on any actual solutions.