How quickly we accepted that it’s normal to pay someone to go get our groceries for us. To drive us around when public transportation is available. To run errands for us. To bring us fast food.

Covid capitalized on it.

People don’t want to give up that luxury now that they’ve had it. Even if it makes things cost 2x-3x as much.

Even when we all know its exploitive labor.

It’s true delivery and driver services have been around for hundreds of years but now instead of companies with full time employees (with benefits) , the gig employee gets paid less while taking on risk that aren’t compensated by the employer (car accidents, gas, car repairs, injury or attacks).

Gig work is a much worse thing than maybe a lot of people realize. And it’s also making more people servants to others.

It’s moving full time employees with benefits and using company property to no benefits and using their own property that they have to pay for.

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    Laura Trump. Erika Kirk. Etc. Takes a certain type of shit stain to marry a monster.

    Mackenzie Bezos and Melinda Gates were outliers.

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      I totally get that they’re outrageously upsetting people, but what would be the governing body to go get them and how would you ensure that they wouldn’t simply money themselves out of it? Like someone else on here said, more would just crop up if you don’t enact a systemwide change to adjust people’s mindsets in the first place.

      Everything I pulled up online said psychopathy development definitely involves both nature and nurture (some articles said the influence is even), and we sure as heck haven’t exhausted the latter yet: nowhere near.