> Honestly at times it seems like all these Uber for this or that, DoorDash and whatever other logistical services were created with the premise of just keeping people busy and making them feel like they have a job (one that often costs them money to work at).

Are you referring to customers or restaurants or drivers?

I’m referring mostly to drivers, but programmers and basically everyone else in the chain as well.

Let’s throw a stupid amount of (not our own) money and manpower at programming a solution to a well defined problem and then grab a bunch of low wage workers and milk them. We will keep everyone, engineers, drivers, restaurants busy all the time to make it seem like we are making progress but in reality we are just burning time, money, oil and the last mile workers to the ground.

With all this money being thrown around you would think they would be able to engineer a solution wherein instead of committing identity theft (which is essentially what the author describes) and exploiting workers, they are actually solving the problem in an honest way which also provides an equitable wage.

Enough with the unethical bullshit. If you have to pose as the business to “help” a business all while exploiting cheap labor you aren’t solving a problem and you don’t have a right to exist, no matter how much money you got from SoftBank.