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Being a host isn't hard at all. You just have to care and prepare. They are offloading their responsibilities and then complaining about friction. It is an ex

Being a host isn't hard at all. You just have to care and prepare. They are offloading their responsibilities and then complaining about friction. It is an extremely privileged and shallow take.

fragmede 2y ago
I didn't think I was complaing, just documenting my situation. I don't think having a cellphone and a credit card and friends and access to doordash puts me into some super privileged category among people posting here even if globally some people don't have running water or Internet. Not sure how that makes me shallow but I'm all ears, I'd love to learn.
- hackable_sand 2y ago
  Maybe I'm reading into your actions and projecting my bias more than I intended. When I used to order food through Uber eats I would always feel bad about it because the ultimate labor costs are abstracted through those layers of convenience. If it is helpful, I consider fast online shipping to be unethical, and customer woes are misdirected at the wrong layer of abstraction, often ignoring the intensive labor costs because they are intentionally hidden. Does that help explain my viewpoint?
  - fragmede 2y ago
    That doesn't address why I'm shallow for describing my lived experience, or my extreme privilege because I'm someone who has access to, and has used Doordash. If you don't use their platform then the delivery people on that platform aren't getting jobs and aren't getting paid. If you want to help them, tip them 50% in cash. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, unfortunately, and we all take our stand where we choose to. I could afford a better phone, but since smarphones have matured, I chose to buy refurbished phones because of the slavery inherent in their creation. Buying refurbished phones minimizes that as best I can while not giving up modern conveniences. Similarly, I'm happy to use a restaurant's app/website instead of Doordash when there is one, but one of my favorite restaurants is only on doordash (Ben's Fast Food, which is delicious healthy food with lots of greens, they just have a terrible name).
    - hackable_sand 2y ago
      Shallow and insecure, damn.
      - fragmede 2y ago
        Rude and mean, damn.

Being a host isn't hard at all. You just have to care and prepare. They are offloading their responsibilities and then complaining about friction. It is an extremely privileged and shallow take.

fragmede 2y ago

I didn't think I was complaing, just documenting my situation. I don't think having a cellphone and a credit card and friends and access to doordash puts me into some super privileged category among people posting here even if globally some people don't have running water or Internet. Not sure how that makes me shallow but I'm all ears, I'd love to learn.

hackable_sand 2y ago
Maybe I'm reading into your actions and projecting my bias more than I intended. When I used to order food through Uber eats I would always feel bad about it because the ultimate labor costs are abstracted through those layers of convenience. If it is helpful, I consider fast online shipping to be unethical, and customer woes are misdirected at the wrong layer of abstraction, often ignoring the intensive labor costs because they are intentionally hidden. Does that help explain my viewpoint?
- fragmede 2y ago
  That doesn't address why I'm shallow for describing my lived experience, or my extreme privilege because I'm someone who has access to, and has used Doordash. If you don't use their platform then the delivery people on that platform aren't getting jobs and aren't getting paid. If you want to help them, tip them 50% in cash. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, unfortunately, and we all take our stand where we choose to. I could afford a better phone, but since smarphones have matured, I chose to buy refurbished phones because of the slavery inherent in their creation. Buying refurbished phones minimizes that as best I can while not giving up modern conveniences. Similarly, I'm happy to use a restaurant's app/website instead of Doordash when there is one, but one of my favorite restaurants is only on doordash (Ben's Fast Food, which is delicious healthy food with lots of greens, they just have a terrible name).
  - hackable_sand 2y ago
    Shallow and insecure, damn.
    - fragmede 2y ago
      Rude and mean, damn.