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I've never been able to bring myself to use DoorDash. But I have no problem getting a burger at a fast food joint.

What is the difference between paying someone to assemble a burger and paying someone else to deliver it?

The grocery stores here in Texas are full of employees doing the shopping for other customers. They push these tall carts through the aisles, selecting items that I assume the customers requested online. Feels icky to me.

Yet, I don't mind having Amazon's employees do the same thing in some warehouse as they select the items I ordered. What's the difference?

Clearly, this isn't an economics issue. It's something to do with our culture.

Maybe we don't like it not because we have any inherent objection to it, but because it's a visible sign of growing inequality (which we think likely originates from unjust reasons, like the Cantillon effect).

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