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		fsckboy on May 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a stor... > The explanation that you're providing is really a rationalization for paying more to procure an inferior product the explanation I gave is literally for paying less, so you missed the point of it, and you are then blaming econ 101 for your lack of understanding. And you are mixing in other factors that econ 101 covers, but the point of econ 101 is to learn to separate different factors.

Spooky23 on May 27, 2020 [–]

The Instacart guy isn't a magic elf. The $0.05 you save on rotten fruit is offset by a $0.50 in labor.

As investors tire of setting money on fire, that will become more apparent, just as it did with Uber as prices went up and quality went down.

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