the machines know how desperate you/we are (20260104)

I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The ‘Priority Fee’ and ‘Driver Benefit Fee’ go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it. : confession

via a friend and HN. this is where #LateStageCapitalism takes us.

20260106 - update … Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit - casey newton from platformer got the receipts and did the digging. the bad news, there’s AI in the mix here and this is only going to get better and harder to detect. the rub here is that it’s not at all unbelievable that this is real. we’re increasingly conditioned to accept this.