chapotraphouse

It's called being an entrepreneur is what I've heard

I drove for a few of them for awhile and they're so sleazy in so many ways. Like they partnered with both car and rental companies and try to get so many people further indebted by enticing them with terrible offers for leasing cars or renting them. They also are opening up their own line of credit cards and shit now. They want their hands into every aspect of the drivers lives to pidgin hole them into being extremely dependent on them for something that is marketed as "independent contractor" and "be your own boss" garbage

All while they can deactivate you over customer lies and pretty much any reason they see fit. Or just automated errors even

All of it has that insidious coercion method that makes it hard for most people to see it's slavery with extra steps.

"You don't HAVE to hustle and do these gigs. I mean, you can die in a ditch or from whatever medical problems you can't pay for." :so-true:

Having done that shit for a little while it does feel like a next level of exploitation (which it is) but as porkrollposadist pointed out it's the return of piecework. It's just a more naked form of coerced exploitation than wage slavery.

I expect we will live to see true neo-feudalism in our lifetimes. Company towns with private law enforcement, special passes for who can enter restricted private land, company scrip and company owned housing.

It's more of a neofeudalism IMO.

Depends on where it is. In atlanta I make like 20 an hour minus gas at worst and around 35 at best. Also I do tax fraud with my tips so no this comment is wrong. It also depends on ur car entirely. If u have a 3 grand Prius with 60mpg it’s a lot more profitable. As well as this u have to understand to only work past 5 pm. And only take orders with a ratio of 2 dollars to mile. My accepterance rate of orders is usually like 3% btw. That’s how u make insanely good money doing it. I work like 50 hours a week and bring home Atleast 1k each week which is a respectable living. Gas only takes off like 100 bucks. Again tho this depends on ur car. It’s also very easy to do tax fraud so even more savings and it’s not double taxed and u can lie about ur tips which make up like 80% of the money u get lol. I will say tho. Outside of a major city Doordash is a scam. In a major city tho expect to average 25 an hour which is much better than my previous job of 10 an hour. Also I pay like 20% of the taxes a normal person does there’s no tax on the order it’s already built in and 80% of money comes from tips which u can lie to the government about. On my tax form I deadass make like 5 an hour. This means I only pay 20% or less lmao. I make 50k a year doing this but I pay the tax of someone making 10k a year.