> Yes it saves you a small amount of time but the people doing it aren't somehow more efficient at it and their labor can't then be allocated to anything that d

> Yes it saves you a small amount of time but the people doing it aren't somehow more efficient at it and their labor can't then be allocated to anything that does provide an efficiency. For the record, them being more efficient at it than you has nothing to do with it. This is one of the insights of economics that many people don't know about - the principle of comparative advantage. > You don't have a fundamental right to having someone else pick up your latte. People should have a fundamental right to agree to a business transaction without it being anyone else's business. If someone wants to pick up my latte and I want to pay for it, it's our fundamental right to agree to that exchange. > If you want to reduce the amount of time it takes you to get food you should stop fighting mixed zoning and start supporting the construction of walkable communities. Eh. Maybe that works for some cases, but food delivery is still important in many situations - people who have mobility issues (handicaps or just age), people who have kids and can't just walk around with them easily this second, etc.