Tipping and food delivery services

As Jimmy_Chitwood says above, it’s kind of both.

This kind of feeds into something I often think about when I read the “What shortages are you seeing” thread over in the Quarantine Zone. A whole lot of those “shortages” aren’t so much people missing out on basic things, or even missing out on nice-to-have things, but are “I can’t get the exact thing I want in the exact size/package I want.

That’s the kind of “shortage” that rich people complain about. A whole lot of Americans are so well off that they really think that this kind of “shortage” is a problem.

This seems similar. Americans are rich enough to support multiple delivery systems to bring them restaurant-cooked meals from virtually any restaurant in their city, and yet, they still want to be cheap enough to complain about the person doing the driving getting $6 for their effort.

If you’re rich enough to even think about using these services, you’re rich enough to pay the damn driver. Anyone actually poor enough to worry about $6 is eating a baloney sandwich they made themselves.