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Technology@beehaw.orgbyChris Remington@beehaw.org
11 days

DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

theintercept.com

https://archive.is/RWt8f

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    In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani.
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    • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
      11 days

      Such horseshit. If you have money for politics, you aren’t paying your people enough!

        • Jul@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          11 days

          Yeah, a symptom of late stage capitalism that large companies no longer compete by improving their product or service, but by manipulating the regulatory environment and/or competition, through collusion, legal attacks, or acquisition. It’s much less risky of an investment for larger companies post-mass-consolidation.

            • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              11 days

              Honestly, though, they are the government in all but name at this point.

              How fucked aren’t we? 😅😬

                • A_be_seedy@beehaw.org
                  11 days

                  Not if you support and vote for your local Mandami. Theyre out there, just needing the right local conditions: create them. Get 3-5 friends and take over your local democratic organization

                    • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                      11 days

                      I hear you, fellow pleb, and I was ardently politically active for decades —until, at a protest vs Bush Jr’s use of his appointed judges to put him back in office, I witnessed 4 swat pigs hogtie a 13yr old girl that was walking by the scene, and huck her in the wagon like a sack. (they also shot a senior vet w/ a “less than lethal” round in the crotch, etc. when he tried to tell them it was a “sit in”).

                      I try to help wherever and however I can, but I’m pretty spent at this point after all these years of burning hard toward a dream, to be frank. 🥲🙇🏼‍♂️ I give what I can these days, but it’s a fraction of what I used to give with exuberance and glowing hope inside.

                        • A_be_seedy@beehaw.org
                          11 days

                          I get it. I’m much less active then I was too. Just gotta find ways to improve our local community, and not be the resistance for the new energy.

                            • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                              11 days

                              Truth. I wish you luck, neighbor! I’m thinking I’ll stick to game nights and social fulfillment for a while. If it all goes to shit, at least I’ll have good memories of the way down. Besides, I’m tired of shadowboxing with fucknuts, ya know?

                                • A_be_seedy@beehaw.org
                                  10 days

                                  Game nights and social fulfuilment still builds community :)

                            • zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                              10 days

                              lol. If voting made a difference, it would be illegal by now.

                                • kunaltyagi@programming.dev
                                  10 days

                                  If voting didn’t make a difference, they wouldn’t be trying this hard to make it hard to vote

                                • Scaramanga@thelemmy.club
                                  10 days

                                  And you would be a complete moron to vote for socialism.

                                    • Bo7a@piefed.caEnglish
                                      10 days

                                      It is refreshing to see someone saying something so purely stupid once a while. Good job!

                                      • Concetta@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                                        10 days

                                        Ah, you think having Andrew Cuomo or Curtis Salewa would have been more reasonable? What policy of Mandami’s do you not support? Do you think people having access to food is a bad thing?

                                • underscore_@sopuli.xyz
                                  11 days

                                  I feel it is never about having the money or not rather that for them it is a moral issue that it’s preferable to spend money on fewer people (political lobbying campaign) rather than the same total amount or even sometimes less on the many.

                                    • dubs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                                      11 days

                                      The same amount of money in fewer hands creates a choke-point that they can squeeze later.

                                  • jtrek@startrek.website
                                    11 days

                                    Haha get fucked DoorDash. I’ll pick up my own food before using them.

                                      • dudesss@piefed.caEnglish
                                        11 days

                                        I always try to call and pickup. If ever a deliver app, never Doordash. Never again.

                                        • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
                                          10 days

                                          A while back I had a free month of dashpass but even with the money “saved” it was still about the same as if we actually dined out and tipped.

                                          • zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                                            10 days

                                            if you pay someone else to make your food, you are lazy and rich.

                                          • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
                                            10 days

                                            They could have just spent that $1.4M improving conditions for their contractors…

                                              • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
                                                10 days

                                                It wouldn’t have been nearly enough, they ended up owing like 100x that much. From a business standpoint that 1.4M was probably a reasonable amount to risk losing.

                                              • kiarash@lemmychan.org
                                                11 days

                                                This is why prices are what they are, so the people profiting off of your stupidity can use your money against you.

                                                Stop being stupid.

                                                  • Juice@midwest.social
                                                    10 days

                                                    Ah yes, capitalism is an individual failing like a snake that eats its own tail.

                                                    Get organized

                                                  • SocialistVibes01@lemmy.mlBanned from community
                                                    10 days

                                                    Mandani isn’t an ally.

                                                      • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                                                        10 days

                                                        Perfect is the enemy of the good

                                                        • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
                                                          10 days

                                                          To Doordash?

                                                          • DegradationDenial@feddit.nl
                                                            10 days

                                                            Classic Marxist Leninist.

                                                              • SocialistVibes01@lemmy.mlBanned from community
                                                                10 days

                                                                Removed by mod

                                                                  • DdCno1@beehaw.org
                                                                    10 days

                                                                    Were you expecting him to execute half of Wall Street on day one?

                                                                • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
                                                                  10 days

                                                                  Uuugghhhh

                                                                  I’ll bite

                                                                  What small thing did he do that got you all riled up?

                                                                    • iocase@lemmy.zip
                                                                      10 days

                                                                      He didnt completely overthrow the capitalists and sieze the means of production 😡😡🤬🤬👺👺

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