Now for a truly unpopular opinion: Uber, Lyft (on basically all other on-demand/delivery services) are making urban living qualitatively far worse on average t

Now for a truly unpopular opinion: Uber, Lyft (on basically all other on-demand/delivery services) are making urban living qualitatively far worse on average than the benefit of extra commerce facilitated by them. They should be banned outright. Give us our streets back. Back when ride-share and on-demand/delivery services were not so ubiquitous, you could either get out and do a chore yourself or do without. For example, one recent weekend I casually mentioned to my wife that I was craving a specific sweet popular in my hometown in Eastern India. She surreptitiously looked up a vendor selling that sweet where I now live and had it delivered. I loved the gesture but it made me think that without delivery, I wouldn't have caused a bike messenger to pick up my snack and bring it a few kilometers to my house. Ergo, no environmental impact, no added traffic, less use of plastic and packaging, and all manner of downstream impacts attributable to me. Yes, there are positives - less skilled/more entrepreneurial people are able to support themselves as drivers, money flows around from consumer to producer as it should in a healthy economy, my cravings are being met and my wife is able to exercise her love language, and so on but IMO, the negatives outweigh the positives. The extra traffic introduced by delivery is untenable, at least in urban India. Delivery persons drive often don't obey traffic laws with minimal consequences. Becoming a driver provides MVE - minimal viable employment - for someone facing economic pressures so instead of upskilling to earn more, they stagnate. The environmental impact of delivery alone should make us worry about their usefulness.