> If that's the case, how can one say that, for all of history, they have been underpaid? What is the standard that defines underpaid?
Your original statement was: "the common view of "underpaid" being a view that isn't consistent with the history of the space."
And this statement is false. Now you're trying to wiggle out of this by pretending that "being underpaid" is undefined because we haven't decided the concept of paid/underpaid and other demagoguery.
1) Delivery drivers are underpaid
2) Doordash and all the rest of gig economy businesses systematically underpay and make conditions even worse because they force people into becoming external contractors with zero rights and protections, and shift many additional costs to these contractors.
> When we talk about delivery people being underpaid, though, that seems directly against the initial pitch
The pitch doesn't matter in the least. Especially if you essentially argue that "Doordash's pitch is true because the common view of "underpaid" isn't consistent with the history of the space."
1) Delivery drivers are underpaid
2) Doordash and all the rest of gig economy businesses systematically underpay people who work for them