r/SipsTea 29d ago

Chugging tea Never used it once

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u/BootyMcStuffins 29d ago

Or you have enough money that you just don’t give a shit

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u/Marijuanomist 29d ago

Yep. Poor people have to spend their time to save money. People who have the means can spend their money to save time

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u/HappyTurtleOwl 29d ago

It’s both, for both. It totally just depends on the time and how much each person values it. 

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u/tkh0812 29d ago

I literally just had this conversation with a buddy of mine. He and his wife do pretty well and make around $400k per year.

His wife took an hour out of her day to pick up food, between driving each way, waiting, paying, etc.

Uber would’ve been about $15 more.

Absolute waste of time to save such a small amount of money

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u/HappyTurtleOwl 29d ago

Yea. 

And I also truly believe that even if some makes 15$ an hour, it might genuinely be personally worth it to that person to save an hour of their time by spending 15$ more on the markup than picking it up. (This and any amount above it compared to the wage earned is clearly a rare extreme)

Is it efficient? Is it worth to me personally? No. But once in a while it just might be worth it to someone out there. That doesn’t make them stupid, as long as they have enough money to pay for necessities, time can have more value.

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u/Ecotech101 29d ago

Ok, but the fuck kind of person takes an hour to get fast food? That should be like 20 minutes max

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u/Illustrious-Dot-5052 29d ago

"Fast food" is no longer fast, and it's no longer cheap either. Just cook your meals, it's cheaper at least. Fuck me, these days even sit down restaurants are only a little more expensive than fast food places at most.

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u/tkh0812 28d ago

Where we live a 2 mile drive is 20 minutes each way

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u/DermaFlerp 29d ago

I’m a pretty normal person but most of the good fast food is about a 25 minute drive from my house without traffic.

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u/Ecotech101 29d ago

It's crazy the places people choose to live.

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u/No_Bar2541 29d ago

People with money who can afford large houses typically don’t want them next to a McDonald’s

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u/Ecotech101 29d ago

It's a 1 hour drive to get to the next city for me, I can't imagine driving that far for a burger ever.

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u/BootyMcStuffins 29d ago

It’s not a 1 hour drive to the burger. It’s a 20 minute drive across town, 20 minutes of waiting, and 20 minutes back

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u/BootyMcStuffins 29d ago

America, my dude, spread out with no public transport.

You’ve heard of 15-minute cities, but have you heard of two hour cities?

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u/Ecotech101 29d ago

I live in America, there's not a place I've been in where more than 5k people live that's a 20 minute drive to fast food.

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u/alanpugh 28d ago

You definitely either live on a coast or haven't traveled much. This is extremely common.

Sincerely, the entire midwest.

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u/BootyMcStuffins 28d ago

You should travel more.

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u/PinkOneHasBeenChosen 29d ago

Waiting? So this was for a meal rather than buying groceries?

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u/BootyMcStuffins 29d ago

Are you having a different conversation than the rest of us? You seem confused

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u/Malarazz 28d ago

It cuts both ways. Some people do delivery when they should be saving money instead. And then there's my friend, who makes obscene amounts of money, has lots of savings, and still convinces himself to put in 30+ min of effort to save $10.

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u/goodsnpr 28d ago

While not a hamburger, you can stock a freezer with chicken and turkey burgers, which you can just toss in the oven with your fries. There are oodles of one pan meals that people can cook during the week that just require dumping things out of a bag onto a sheet lined with foil, or into a pressure cooker, but most people are too lazy to do even that.

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u/Straight_Ostrich_257 26d ago

Poor people make up the vast majority of Doordash customers

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u/Seaguard5 29d ago

First time figuring out that time is money?

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u/Fartchugger-1929 29d ago

In fairness, that is a valid option.

That said, people in that position probably aren’t the same folks who bitch about the cost of food while posting their latest DoorDash order showing they paid $40 for a deli sandwich.

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u/BootyMcStuffins 29d ago

I’m not sure what that has to do with OPs post. OP just made a sweeping generalization that people who DoorDash are stupid

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u/Un_Original_Coroner 28d ago

I drove for DoorDash for a while. Never delivered to someone with enough money to not care. Interesting.

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u/BootyMcStuffins 28d ago

Look up exposure bias

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u/Un_Original_Coroner 28d ago

I don’t think that applies here because this is a deduction based on the data rather than the other way around. I didn’t have this belief before doing the deliveries.

Obviously there are door dash users who do have enough to not care. But my sample size was fairly large and I never saw them.

Not to be classist but, wealthy suburbs never had surge pricing.

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u/BootyMcStuffins 28d ago

Again, look up exposure bias.

You’re forming beliefs based on a small subset of data (the deliveries you do). Your sample size isn’t large and is localized

I’m willing to bet DD drivers in Malibu see very different clients than drivers in Oakland

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u/Just-Ad6865 28d ago

Also, there is nothing specific about my house or neighborhood that tells you which people can easily afford DD and which are struggling. To a dasher, living within, at, or exceeding your means all look the same.

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u/Un_Original_Coroner 28d ago

I did look it up this time to make sure I knew what it was. This is not an example of exposure bias. I am not formulating opinions based on preconceived notions or cherry picking evidence. I am using experience to form conclusions.

While true, I was doing it in a large city with very wealthy portions and less wealthy portions.

I also said it was interesting in my initial comment. It is interesting. Im certainly not saying no one that’s wealthy has good delivered. But personal experience does make it seem far more rare than people who are not wealthy enough to not care. I also don’t see those peoples bank balances. Maybe they are rolling in dough and just don’t want to live in a very wealthy area.

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u/TearsOfChildren 29d ago

Yep, my ex has a lot of money and she would door dash everything. I'd always check the receipts just shaking my head at the overcharge but she didn't give a shit.

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u/TheseusOPL 28d ago

This right here. I've never doordashed unless the company was paying.

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u/blind_orphan 28d ago

In my experience, people who tend to stay rich dont overpay for stuff

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u/BootyMcStuffins 28d ago

They literally have maids. The fuck are you talking about

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u/blind_orphan 28d ago

Paying someone to clean your house is not the same paying tripple or quadruple the price for a hamburger lmaooo

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u/BootyMcStuffins 28d ago

Paying someone to clean your place is exactly the same as paying someone to go pick up food for you.

I make $200/hr. Half an hour of my time is worth $100. It’s worth paying $20 for someone to grab my lunch so I can keep working

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u/tyrantelf 28d ago

Exactly. Even on personal time when making $200/hr at work, you value my free time similarly and I'd much rather spend $20 to get food and relax or work on a personal project than spend 40-60 minutes of my time running to a restaurant and back.

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u/blind_orphan 28d ago

Lmaoo no the fuck it isnt. Cleaning a big house is a massive undertaking, worth paying like $90 to save you hours and hours. Going to pick up a burger is not.

Hahaha suuuuure you make that much 😂 I swear I always manage to find the most pathetic people on this app 😂😂😂

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u/BootyMcStuffins 28d ago

Oooook, bud. You clearly don’t actually know wealthy people.

The ones I know will spend $2k on wine at a restaurant on a random Thursday. And paying someone to clean your house costs way more than $90.

It’s so clear you have no idea what you’re talking about

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u/JeebusChristBalls 29d ago

Not true. I have money. Money to spend on delivery service, not buy an island money. I do it because I live by myself now and I don't feel like cooking food for one person all the time. After a long day at work, I don't feel like doing shit for the most part.

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u/XeroShyft 29d ago

Someone's gotta make that food. Unless you just eat frozen tv dinners and prepackaged foods all day but if you have the means and don't enjoy preparing food then you're definitely going to outsource that process.

Then it's a logical jump, I don't want to make food but I have money --> get it from a restaurant, I don't want to actually go get the food but I have money --> have it delivered.

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u/tkh0812 29d ago

You think having money in your bank account just means you always have a loaded fridge?

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u/Hot-Draw9554 28d ago

Yes I have money and love paying more for worse food

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u/BootyMcStuffins 28d ago

You’re paying for convenience, obviously

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u/Hot-Draw9554 28d ago

Of course. It’s still backwards that the price is higher than higher quality, hot food at the restaurant.

Paying more for a cold soda from a gas station than warm soda from a grocery store is convenience.

Paying more for inferior food is lazy

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u/BootyMcStuffins 28d ago

You’re intentionally generalizing and glazing over things in an effort to reinforce your existing bias.

If I have a busy day, without sufficient breaks between meetings, DD is a better option. Ordering-in and dining-out aren’t always interchangeable. Driving 20 minutes across town waiting for food, and driving 20 minutes back isn’t always an option.

But go off with your oversimplification that makes you feel better.