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For real Seems that innovations that don't involve shaking down the consumer 3 times before lunch are not really innovations in the US
by raverbashing 4y ago
For real
Seems that innovations that don't involve shaking down the consumer 3 times before lunch are not really innovations in the US
- hocuspocus 4y agoI think the best illustration of this is Instacart: they basically re-invented what many supermarkets in Europe and Asia had been doing for 10+ years already, only with huge markups and gig workers exploitation.
- rootusrootus 4y agoFWIW, many grocery stores in the US had delivery many years before Instacart came around. Europeans have this really weird, ignorant understanding of America.
- hocuspocus 4y agoYet Instacart managed to raise $2.9B, that makes it even worse.