20 sats \ 2 replies \ @om 27 Jun 2022 \ parent \ on: 📺 Arcade City - Not just decentralized Uber, decentralized gig economy! bitcoin
They subject all packages to x-rays and chemical tests that random drivers have no way whatsoever to perform. Delivery companies (yes, the world outside US has them) do that sort of thing too.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @thrown 27 Jun 2022
seems like that would make the whole system incredibly inefficient and could even damage items, but if it is true, there is no reason something similar couldn't be implemented in a p2p model.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @om 27 Jun 2022
Incredibly inefficient, exactly. Then we lose to normal grocery delivery services because they don't have to do anything like the postal service does.
This is why I don't believe a pure p2p replacement of a postal service is feasible, but it should be possible to tell a random driver to buy a kilo of tomatos in a random supermarket and deliver it. This is subpar because we'd like the supplier to use bitcoin too.
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