There's something even less flattering to that same set of NYC liberals ( a crowd I know better than I wish I did) lurking in all this. The idea that this crackdown on small motorized vehicles means customers will have to walk to the local take-out place for dinner and pick it up rather than having an underpaid moped driver bring it to t…
There's something even less flattering to that same set of NYC liberals ( a crowd I know better than I wish I did) lurking in all this. The idea that this crackdown on small motorized vehicles means customers will have to walk to the local take-out place for dinner and pick it up rather than having an underpaid moped driver bring it to them. If these laws make food delivery no longer economically viable then that's the cost of safety. It's like the old Dead Kennedy's record "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death," probably the true motto of America. I have sympathy for the drivers, obviously, being caught in the midst of economic forces that are working against them at every turn, but if you can't DoorDash a burger to your apartment at 11pm at a price you want to pay without the delivery guy speeding down a sidewalk on a moped, maybe that option needs to go away.
I loathe leaving the house as much as the next guy, but let's not pretend the insatiable demand of New Yorkers to have food brought to them in their pajamas isn't what's making all that necessary in the first place.
I seriously doubt that most receivers of delivery care about the 5 minute difference in delivery times that enforcement and law-following would actually create. I don't see any compelling evidence to assume that enforcement of these particular laws would lead to noticably higher delivery times, OR that those delivery time increases would actually result in fewer customers. Feels like a lot of Econ 101 abstract analysis
Well, clearly there is an economic reason they deliver food via scooter rather than on foot. 5 minutes is an arbitrary number, but even if I just accept the hypothetical difference you threw out there it's 5 minutes longer for the food to get there and an additional 5 minutes for the driver to return, and then that double process is repeated for every single delivery in a shift. It adds up fast. If it would have been a 10 minute trip on a moped you've just doubled the delivery time by walking the delivery there.
Yea, verily. Much like MAGA types bemoaning lawlessness in Mexico, Muh Cartels, etc. while forgetting that there would be no drug trade in Mexico worth mentioning, were it not for the Yanquis' insatiable appetite for drugs.
There's something even less flattering to that same set of NYC liberals ( a crowd I know better than I wish I did) lurking in all this. The idea that this crackdown on small motorized vehicles means customers will have to walk to the local take-out place for dinner and pick it up rather than having an underpaid moped driver bring it to them. If these laws make food delivery no longer economically viable then that's the cost of safety. It's like the old Dead Kennedy's record "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death," probably the true motto of America. I have sympathy for the drivers, obviously, being caught in the midst of economic forces that are working against them at every turn, but if you can't DoorDash a burger to your apartment at 11pm at a price you want to pay without the delivery guy speeding down a sidewalk on a moped, maybe that option needs to go away.
I loathe leaving the house as much as the next guy, but let's not pretend the insatiable demand of New Yorkers to have food brought to them in their pajamas isn't what's making all that necessary in the first place.
I seriously doubt that most receivers of delivery care about the 5 minute difference in delivery times that enforcement and law-following would actually create. I don't see any compelling evidence to assume that enforcement of these particular laws would lead to noticably higher delivery times, OR that those delivery time increases would actually result in fewer customers. Feels like a lot of Econ 101 abstract analysis
Well, clearly there is an economic reason they deliver food via scooter rather than on foot. 5 minutes is an arbitrary number, but even if I just accept the hypothetical difference you threw out there it's 5 minutes longer for the food to get there and an additional 5 minutes for the driver to return, and then that double process is repeated for every single delivery in a shift. It adds up fast. If it would have been a 10 minute trip on a moped you've just doubled the delivery time by walking the delivery there.
Yea, verily. Much like MAGA types bemoaning lawlessness in Mexico, Muh Cartels, etc. while forgetting that there would be no drug trade in Mexico worth mentioning, were it not for the Yanquis' insatiable appetite for drugs.