>So when they say "DoorDash has claimed that the new fees they’re charging are a necessary result of raising pay for workers" (according to this page anyway) they invite this type of analysis.
The two paragraphs don't follow each other. Are you saying mcdonalds gets a free pass on price increases (on which they at least partially blame on rising wages), because they have employees rather than contractors? Why should be this the case? As the consumer, shouldn't I be equally angry if mcdonalds is jacking up prices to pump their profits under the guise of "higher labor costs"? Sure, there's plenty of reasons to hate on companies using gig labor, but hating on them for price increases specifically seems closer to bitch eating cracker syndrome[1] than any sort of rational analysis.