Home-delivered meals have always bothered me. It looks like the perfect example of overlooked irresponsible #consumerism.
You have a **fridge** where you can store food for days, a **freezer** where you can store food for months, **grocery stores and supermarkets** everywhere around you (some of them open during weekends or at night), convenient **online orders** and cheap **delivery** of those groceries…
…and yet you need that a local restaurant wraps their stuff in way more plastic and paper than is necessary, and that some kid jumps on a dirty moped and whizzes dangerously through the city to get to your door _right now_?
At 11PM?
I order home-delivery very rarely, and when I do it I feel a strange guilt.
What a curious reading.
I struggle to see the connection between my criticism of home-delivered food and #wokeism.
The Elect are probably the main consumers of home delivery, being mostly affluent urbanites with sleek smartphones, busy lives and a taste for ethnic food and whatever is trendy and immediate. Also, I'm going to claim some originality here — I don't recall reading anything like my toot on vox.com, quoted from AOC, or on the feed of The New York Times (I'm sure you'll be able to find something similar now, if you look for it; I'm just saying I don't think I unconsciously imbibed the idea from woke sources).
I tend to think that we, citizens of rich countries, need less consumerism, more austerity, a higher tolerance to minor discomforts (eg hunger, boredom), and more awareness about the impact of our daily actions — in general. This (quick home-delivered food) is just a phenomenon where those ideas are quite salient, IMHO.
