Yup, but at least First Ave has a wonderful new shortcut through the tunnel under the UN.

Obviously not true for most markets now, but like many other VC-fueled marketplaces, the vastness of the subsidy blew up a lot of common wisdom (eg ‘if it’s too good to be true, it is’), and a lot of people’s ability to reason with it

Something that broke people’s brains re: food delivery was how extensive the VC subsidy was in their early days. During the delivery wars, it sometimes was cheap (or close to free) to get food/groceries. I bounced between services in the late 2010s and got hundreds of dollars of subsidized food