Twitter is going through another round of gig delivery discourse just like it does every three months or so, and some things I keep noticing:
- People suck at competing access needs. A lot. Any time you have two groups set in opposition to each other, people will try to assign them the roles of underdog and oppressor, usually by assigning one marginalized identity to one of the groups.
- This might be the legacy of radfeminism with its men bad women good ideology or it might be a clumsy attempt to make an analogy with Marx's working class and capitalist class. Either way it's laughably unsophisticated politics.
- It's immensely funny when "delivery app customers" gets treated as interchangeable with "disabled people" given that part of why I'm working UberEats instead of something better is disability stuff.
- Inevitably I get subjected to a milder form of the condescension that sex workers experience: I am a victim. I need to be saved, preferably by forcibly removing me from my job. Perhaps the whole concept of my job is itself immoral.
- Sometimes people go so far as to take aim at the non-exploitative parts of my job. Thus, my desire to be able to clock in and out as my energy allows is lazy, and my desire to wear whatever clothes I want on the job is decadent. My greediness, and mine alone, is the reason why we have capitalism.
