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socially speaking, how is uber any different from a taxi? I'm not expected to share either of them with other passengers and both include a driver.
doordash offers delivery for many restaurants that dont have their own in house delivery, and again i don't see much of a difference socially speaking either way.
i find most people only use the self check out when it is actually faster, if the line is shorter i frequently see people prefer a cashier. I use the cashier the vast majority of the time as i tend to get items with expiring soon discounts that need employee confirmation anyway. I often see people with a similar amount of grocceries beat me time wise by using the check out.
Overall i don't think you are wrong and we are becoming less social with strangers, i just think some of the examples you used aren't great.
Uber is different because you use an app instead of calling a person on the phone to order a cab. Furthermore, with an Uber you don’t even have to talk to the driver because they already know your destination.
DoorDash is similar: you use an app instead of placing an order over the phone. This is meaningful enough that many people switched to it even when their favourite restaurant already had delivery because they didn’t want to talk to someone on the phone.
That seems more an issue of convenience rather than a desire to not interact with people. Being able to order a ride or food in a few clicks and see the price and availability immediately beats having to find the phone number, hope they’re available, ask all those individual questions (or don’t and hope it’s not too far away), or worse, repeat all that for another restaurant/taxi company because the first is too busy.