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Wag may be overvalued, but it definitely provides nonzero value. Anecdata: we use it (and Rover) almost weekly to find someone to sit or walk our dog when we c
by tomlagier 6y ago
Wag may be overvalued, but it definitely provides nonzero value.
Anecdata: we use it (and Rover) almost weekly to find someone to sit or walk our dog when we can't get home in a timely manner due to work or social events. We've kept the contacts of several sitters but it's so much easier to use a platform for scheduling rather than playing are-you-free with 3 or 4 people that we'll pay the markup. Having access to those services is a huge QoL improvement.
It also enables a pretty easy additional income stream for people in a position to do the gigs. From what I've seen, it's straightforward to support yourself and even make a good middle-income wage just because dogs are a little simpler to parallelize than, say, taxi rides or food deliveries.
- ac29 6y agoSure, but what you're describing is service for people rich enough to try and have it all (aka paying a lot of money to not have to give up weekly social occasions to take care of their pets) but not wealthy enough to have full time help. The vast, vast majority of the world doesnt have that kind of luxury, which is why most people aren't too terribly sad to see these businesses fail.
- perl4ever 6y ago"The vast, vast majority of the world doesnt have that kind of luxury" This is a perverse way of framing the difference between developed countries and the rest of the world. It's a privilege to not be able to afford servants, as they would in many non-Western countries with greater inequality?
- masonic 6y agoit's so much easier to use a platform for scheduling And who cares how much of a cut Rover/Wag takes from the service provider, as they are all interchangeable and easily disposable, right?