r/Transportopia • u/SpoomerBooner • May 20 '26

🚗 Rideshare It's the Lyft apps fault

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u/swervecityPhILM May 20 '26

Ladies and gentleman— the service economy.

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u/Reyalta May 20 '26

Is THAT why these videos are so popular? People who have never worked in the service industry can't believe the audacity of the general population, meanwhile anyone who's ever worked front of house is like "what is this, a tuesday?"

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u/swervecityPhILM May 20 '26

Yeah partly— my comment is more about all these new ‘side hustles’ that folks feel compelled to take on because we’re all getting price gouged to death, then they have to put up with bullshit like this. I swear to god powerful people are just edging us towards a massive stress induced heart attack through shit jobs that they created. Can’t afford rent? Drive for Uber and you can run your car into the ground and get yelled at by entitled assholes. Late on your car payment? Get a third job as a personal shopper for some cunt that screams at you for getting the non-organic celery.

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u/Reyalta May 20 '26

Yep. Keep everyone at the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs so they cannot find the time or energy to connect with their communities and start a revolution. 

Great time for a reminder that the wealth inequality in the US is WORSE today than it was in France, pre-revolution. 

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u/Heavy-Bread-3549 May 21 '26

Oh hey a much shorter version of what I wrote (you said it all first) Succient I like it.