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> We simply can’t rely on a class of workers to dote on us simply because we fancy living in the burbs

You make zero sense. Going to the grocery store involves the same workers helping you pay for gas and selling you groceries, or cooking your meals. Are you a recluse that interacts with zero workers? Who in their right mind calls someone else out for using a regular service? You'd prefer those people to not have jobs surely.



Its about efficiency, a grocery store will require one large supply truck. Supplying everyone to their home requires way more people and energy.


There's no end to that game of efficiency. You end up with either ascetic monk life people or asking for population reduction measures.

If you're annoyed about low efficiency of ordering food, what do you think of vacation traveling, hobbies, any sort of vehicles etc. Most efficiency would be to have no humans with our superfluous wants and needs. Otherwise you're just shaming others for doing things you happen not to like, while forgetting all the useless things you do. Surely you have done consumist purchases that weren't required for your immediate survival or health preservation before.


> There's no end to that game of efficiency. You end up with either ascetic monk life people or asking for population reduction measures.

Yes because carrying groceries by 15m walk to home is surely on the same level as demanding population reduction measures.


Wouldn't delivery be more efficient than people not practiced at logistics delivering thinga to their homes back and forth themselves?


Possibly if that last mile delivery was carried out by people who were also practiced in logistics. This is never the case. It’s better for you to find a means of transportation to get your staples of living than to pay someone else to use any means of transportation to provide you your bananas.

The planet can’t take any more “conveniences” on our behalf. We need to find a more efficient way of delivering goods and getting our goods. Throwing your hands up and saying “I’ll just get everything delivered” is about the worst option you can do from a logistics perspective to reduce carbon.




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