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... not overtly, intentionally evil. FTFY

• tyre 2mo ago
  What’s the case that they’re secretly, unintentionally evil?
  • kortilla 2mo ago
    They destroy grocery stores that offer variety in every neighborhood they operate in. They offer worse service and people put up with it because the rest of New York is subsidizing them through taxes.
  • snakeboy 2mo ago
    Bad economic policy is subtly "evil", by way of allocating finite resources inefficiently. Usually this is unintentionally done by not appropriately taking second, third, ..., nth order effects into account.
    • jdub 2mo ago
      ... which would make (our current model of) capitalism especially evil. Compared to a supermarket.
  • naasking 2mo ago
    The margins for groceries are objectively thin. The only way to provide food at lower prices is to provide a worse good or service, eg. less variety, less quality, less availability, etc. You will see all of these outcomes in NYC, if anyone even accepts the bids to begin with.