Yeah, a symptom of late stage capitalism that large companies no longer compete by improving their product or service, but by manipulating the regulatory environment and/or competition, through collusion, legal attacks, or acquisition. It's much less risky of an investment for larger companies post-mass-consolidation.

I feel it is never about having the money or not rather that for them it is a moral issue that it’s preferable to spend money on fewer people (political lobbying campaign) rather than the same total amount or even sometimes less on the many.

I always try to call and pickup. If ever a deliver app, never Doordash. Never again.

A while back I had a free month of dashpass but even with the money "saved" it was still about the same as if we actually dined out and tipped.

if you pay someone else to make your food, you are lazy and rich.

It wouldn't have been nearly enough, they ended up owing like 100x that much. From a business standpoint that 1.4M was probably a reasonable amount to risk losing.