It's just feel-good horseshit. DoorDash wanted some PR, and CNN is there to give it to them. Now we're discussing them by name on HN. It's all very clever. I

It's just feel-good horseshit. DoorDash wanted some PR, and CNN is there to give it to them. Now we're discussing them by name on HN. It's all very clever. I think it's important to use your own product (so get food delivered), but I don't really see any value in doing someone else's job as a pretend fantasy for a day. If you have any empathy, you'll know that the work isn't so bad, but the lack of health insurance, childcare, long-term career growth, etc. are the problems with the gig economy. The job itself is fine. The most positive outcome is probably having the realization that the gig economy is quite abusive and that you want nothing to do with it, so stop working for the company entirely.