Re: A nation of takeout deliverers..
and so few delivery recipients.... this calls for yet another "disruptive", "ground-breaking", "revolutionary", "gig-e-conomy" scheme, i.e. virtual-real moped-gladiator "platforms", for those lucky few to be able to afford paying for a pizza delivery.
And if you think it's crazy, such platforms have been in place for the last several years. Obviously, the lowest-price bidder scoops the lucky sod to pay him / her peanuts for the job. Obviously, when you pay peanuts, you get monkeys, but unlike the pizza which suspiciously smells of vomit, the bidders do _not_ care about quality of what they're getting. As long as it doesn't _totally_ smell of vomit, it's allright. But then, the irony, even this market is quickly disappearing, because ai-supported equivalent of lowest paid sods, is much faster, much cheaper, and still, no worse so... bye-bye humans.
btw, a pretty accurate picture was presented in that (generally poor) bbc dystopian future series "years and years". But hey, it's gonna be allright, cause industrial revolution, see, no big deal! Only that soon, you know, it'll be an industrial revolution's on ai steroids and across the whole economy, across the whole world. Who's gonna pay income tax? Who's gonna buy all this shit people keep producing because "GDP growth must go on!"?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
