Delivering food has a cost and is a service. Before things like doordash you could only get delivery from select locations, by creating a network of drivers you can now get delivery from most restaurants.

Does doordash exploit people and restaurants, yes. However, providing a delivery service is not rent seeking there is something being offered.

Doordash isn’t rent extraction though, and is a system that benefits from a singular platform. That doesn’t mean Doordash is the best implementation of that service, but the example isn’t good.

If Europe really moves away from big tech and new trade deals are made around the US, then those gains will be short lived.

He’s hurting everyone’s wallets, there are only so many diversions and Lies you can get away with while peoples wallets are empty.

Whats amazing is he took over after Biden had more or less fixed inflation (yeah, wages were still catching up, but it was more or less solved). He was handed a golden opportunity to push his policies if he just laid off the tarrifs. Instead he’s taken a fairly solid and growing economy and decimated it in a year.

The only thing I can hope for is that some people start to recognize republicans are terrible at managing the economy.

This is about “teleporting” information not physical material (if my understanding is correct)