For sure, delivery time will never be a good thing for any food. Some just handle it worse than others.

Asian food has been doing to-go for centuries, though. It packs well and keeps well for 30 minutes. In fact there is a to-go only Thai place near me which uses an industrial kitchen and literally a hole in the side of the building to take payments and hand over food. Other restaurants we know in our area stopped seating people during COVID and would just hand out to-go orders at the door. But I can only think of Asian restaurants that did this.

There’s nothing wrong necessarily with having a separate delivery service. Restaurants aren’t good at making menu apps or driving cars. It may be a little awkward fit for restaurants who rent retail space and offer dine-in tables, but the world is transitioning and I fully expect more Doordash-first restaurants operating out of less expensive kitchen space and just skipping the whole dine-in waiter thing.

I hate to hear that Doordash pays so poorly but we always tip 20% or more which, even if it is the only payment the driver receives, usually seems fair for 30 minutes of work. We are a family of four and our order is always over $50. So that’s $10 / 30 minutes or $20 / hour minimum (if everyone used it the way we do). That seems like an okay wage for a job with so much flexibility. Probably the real thing that kills it is gas and wear on the car being invisible costs. Just like with regular Uber drivers.

EDIT: hey /u/womble have you heard of this other American concept called “fuck you, Jack.”

Line go up. But that appears to be a GDP graph, not a chart of purchasing power. Am I missing something?

Could you point out the purchasing power data? It’s a 93 page report and I don’t see any heading on that in the table of contents.

While it’s good data to see, I’m always suspicious of celebrating the fact that people have gone from earning $2 per day to $5 per day as “eradicating poverty.”

The dude has a haircut which no one else is allowed to have. The fact that Dear Leader gets to do things you don’t isn’t an embarrassing secret, it’s a pillar of their society!

I have. It was rent, not groceries, but same conversation. Their feedback was consistent. “In the past, the government covered this entirely, but now we have to pay a part.”

I asked how that works when they are employed by the government, technically. The government is how they earn money to pay for the thing the government used to pay for. How does this make sense?

Their answer: “In the past, the government covered this entirely, but now we have to pay a part.”

“In most areas” is a very big cheat on this data though. With a great deal of wealth concentrated in the 1%, you can’t just leave out the 1% as an outlier and say that aside from them, things are pretty equal.

China’s wealth inequality overall has skyrocketed and is staggering, both because of its growing number of explosively wealthy, and the utter impoverishment of a large part of the population.

You’re making it sound like wage growth always perfectly balances with inflation. It doesn’t. Regular people get fucked when wage growth falls behind price growth, but they benefit if wage growth outpaces inflation, which it sometimes does. This means that inflation is not some ever present gotcha that always keeps the people down. It’s one factor in the equation.

On another point, can you explain why you think inflation benefits the ruling class, and deflation benefits the working class? Because you never explained this which gives the appearance that it’s based entirely on “when prices go up, ruling class win,” which is not always the case.

Yes that comment is 5% saying something and 95% shitting on unnamed people in an attempt to claim elite knowledge.

Even more than most, China’s current reality is based entirely on explosive growth, which they’ve had plenty of in the last 20 years.

Practical answer: because they haven’t installed concrete wheel stops on the ground in that parking lot. If that’s a used walkway, they should.

I know, people are assholes, etc. I’m just mentioning a solution that is actually available, where unassholing everyone isn’t.