I don’t know where the idea that drivers hating uber eats customers = drivers hating disabled and poor people comes from.
I don’t know why y’all think the drivers are wealthy and privileged or that we “own the means of production” (you don’t own a car w/ a payment left on it and we do NOT own the app)
Especially when WE’RE mostly disabled people, immigrants, and trans people w/ no other options. We’re not being paid enough to eat. We’re not being paid enough to cover rent anywhere. We’re often not even paid enough to cover gas.
You should feel bad if you use gig economy food delivery apps even if you actually do NEED to use them, anyway. You should be siding with the drivers to advocate for better pay (else the abolition of the apps.) You need to be aware of what you are participating in even if you have no other choice, especially when the same is true of us. We don’t have a choice, either, so why do your needs negate ours? We’re both disabled, you asshole!
Every night I deliver junk food to massive houses with 6 or more bedrooms in the richest suburbs in the state for hours on end. It is destroying my body and making my condition worse. If things do not change I will eventually die from this. You argue that this is what’s necessary to keep you alive and you feel no shame or disgust?
I am frequently not paid enough to cover the cost of gas because most (if not all) of them do not tip. I am exposed to ostentatious wealth over and over in a long, empty, agonizing, isolating string of trips for which I was paid a mere $1.50 each regardless of how long the drives took. I am sexually harassed inside the restaurants while I am waiting for the food. I am followed to my car by men. I am yelled at by men. I am threatened with a knife at a McDonald’s for rejecting one of their advances.
Gas is $4.40 today. Base pay is $1.50. Every trip is at least 20 miles. I can’t buy a car with better mileage because I’m not being paid. Every trip costs over $3 to complete. After the trip, a $10 tip is reduced to $2, a common tactic used to get the food faster because we reject trips that wouldn’t pay enough to cover the cost of gas. We are not stupid. We do not take these orders willfully.
I just paid a dollar to drive for nearly an hour to bring a rich person a single taco.
tell me again what’s ableist about my disabled ass hating the motherfucker who did that to me?
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