I know IRS or similar entities wouldn't like, but would it be possible to establish a peer to peer service.

No fees for restorants, all extra money to dashers, and clients wouldn't be screwed by service fees.

Honestly looks like a cool project I could look into, but what would be the legality of such services.

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4lan 38 points 2 years ago

I've been dreaming of a future where Uber, DoorDash, etc are devoid of any corporate organization. Developers, drivers and support staff are the only human workers, the rest is organized by a complex, but open source, program.

No investors, no shareholders, every cent goes to the workers. Wages are higher in prices are lower because we aren't paying five VPs a million dollars a year or sending all our profits to the shareholders.

I think advances in computing and AI could actually make this possible. If only greed didn't run the world it might be doable

I want free market capitalism that works for us. What we have now if slavery with extra steps

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RizzRustbolt 14 points 2 years ago

Federated DoorDash?

I'm in.

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Pyr_Pressure 10 points 2 years ago

The funny thing is that sounds a lot like communism, despite being a capitalistic free market service. Corporate communism if you will

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menemen 7 points 2 years ago

I always wonder why trade organization don't organize stuff like this. Wouldn't this be in the interest of the whole gastronomic industry? Pretty much every single restaurant in the country could earn more money (and I know they probably don't care, but the gig workers could also earn more).

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OneWomanCreamTeam 37 points 2 years ago

I mean, so long as he's reporting his income. Plenty of cash businesses operate within the IRS's good graces. Hell, you can even report your income from selling drugs. The IRS just wants their cut.

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___ 7 points 2 years ago

If this man who only wants to help people with awesome competition while offering lower prices.. somehow is blocked from doing this.. it’s time for a rebellion against our overlords.

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poplargrove 13 points 2 years ago

Why not a worker's cooperative? Plusses include no executives earning insane salaries or stockholders to please.

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laranis 13 points 2 years ago

Didn't Uber start as a ride sharing app? As in, "Hey we're both headed in the same direction! I'll give you a ride in my vehicle, stranger, if you pitch in for gas." Then they realized with a few tweaks they could turn their pool of near-slave labor into profit. Enshittification accelerates.

Maybe there's a Fediverse-like solution for gig work that doesn't suck all the humanity out of it?

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fne8w2ah 3 points 2 years ago

Pretty much yes. The Uber Eats app came later.

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ikidd 4 points 2 years ago

That would be kinda neat. If you're going to drive somewhere anyway, you register a destination into an app and it calcs a low-cost route to pick something up and deliver it that's mostly on the way. You get a credit and the next time you go to order something, it uses that credit. If nobody is going your way in the time frame you specify for the delivery, floaters can pick it up for a premium if they wish.

It would only work well if there were a lot of people in on it, so it might be tough to get momentum.

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___ -3 points 2 years ago

Without centralized management, you might need something like blockchain to manage it.

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HopFlop 4 points 2 years ago

I see two issues with that:

No liability. Got your food 2 hours late? Better yet: Didn't get your food at all? Guess you lost that money.
Pricing. If drivers are able to make their own prices, they will probably start undercutting each other, resulting in very low fees for the drivers. Also, it would be very intransparent to userd how much the delivery will cost.

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frankspurplewings 7 points 2 years ago

I think this comment is taking out the relationship aspect of what this guy is doing. I'm not in Seattle, but if there was just a regular, reliable dude around here that just delivered food for a flat rate, I'd keep using his service.

This is more about the relationship and trust and building a reliable customer base by providing regular reliable service, than it is for competition. At least at this point.

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ransomwarelettuce 2 points 2 years ago

1° a rating system like the ones exist today however, such platform would have to systems in place to identify shitty dashers like a photo that restaurants could rely on before giving the order to said dasher.

2° a minimum fee could be established, but even so that could be indeed a problem

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