People don’t want to give up that luxury now that they’ve had it.
Maybe people should also take some responsibility there?
this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2026
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Yes. But too few will change their habits even when acknowledging the damage it's doing.
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.
Speak for yourself!
I have delivered more food myself than I've paid to have delivered to me, and that was a job I had in college (working for a restaurant directly, as it was long before the rise of third-party delivery) that I quit after one shift because it sucked.
And even in the few times when somebody else (e.g. an employer) insisted on getting a grubhub or uber for me at their expense, I wasn't happy about it! It always just feels incredibly wasteful -- and slower/worse -- than just doing it myself.
I mean as a country. Not you or me personally.
I even know a few families who are getting into debt because they want to have a lifestyle of having others do everything for them. This is so crazy.
THe worst is that it makes people less likely to want to change our economic system in favor of reducing inequality, because in a system without inequality, it will be impossible to have people doing small things for us like that