There is no good reason that any third party should see more than a tiny tiny bit of operating money for the act of local drivers delivering local food from local restaurants to local customers.
They made a bit of money in the beginning, great. Time to move on to a fairer solution, given that it's trivially easy to replicate.
The money that they already have that they can use to influence other companies and government, et al.
This is all very common; your likely problem is that you've bought into the "free market" fantasy; that somehow some meritorious competitor will rise above the others. Unfortunately, a free market like that requires more protections against e.g. "healthy competition" than we currently have.
This is a valid argument for an entrenched monopoly, but DoorDash already has lots of big, powerful competitors (e.g. Uber). Are you suggesting they’re all involved in a price-fixing racket?
That’s possible, of course, but I don’t think it’s the most plausible hypothesis without more evidence.
This presumes that "as long as technically legal, what they're doing is fine" and I don't subscribe to that necessarily -- I think they can, and are, screwing people legally -- in fact, we've heard all the weird stories about price frontrunning, etc. I'd add Uber to the list of bad guys too. Screw 'em all.
I don't care about legality, I care about fairness and obvious first principle things. Namely: everyone here knows it would be extremely cheap and easy to build a local uber/doordash whatever competitor. Lots of off the shelf software to do so.
I don't believe those companies deserve that money for doing relatively little work, especially today. This is generally in tune even with the principles of intellectual property, namely a temporary advantage.
No need anymore. Like a lot of services, local would be better.
There is no good reason that any third party should see more than a tiny tiny bit of operating money for the act of local drivers delivering local food from local restaurants to local customers.
They made a bit of money in the beginning, great. Time to move on to a fairer solution, given that it's trivially easy to replicate.