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The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it. (thepit.social)

submitted 5 months ago by cm0002@lemdro.id to c/usa@midwest.social

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 22 points 5 months ago

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I kinda figured the food delivery services would end up operating this way. Number must go up, and the only two groups they can squeeze that from are customers and drivers.

[–] taco@anarchist.nexus 16 points 5 months ago

the only two groups they can squeeze that from are customers and drivers.

There's stuff they charge the restaurants for too. They manage to take from all three parties of a transaction while contributing the least value.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 5 months ago

Nice to have confirmation of what we already knew. Giant corpos suck.

[–] SineSwiper@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Which company?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 months ago

Are we going to pretend they aren't all doing shit like this? I guessed as much and I have never used "ride-sharing" apps or delivery apps because they're inherently exploitative.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 5 months ago

All of them.

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe 3 points 5 months ago

Well, at least it’s creating buzz.