This is a garbage take and it’s got the stink of “But if we have a car-free city then you’re ableist and you’re condemning people with mobility issues to being housebound!!” all over it.

Fuck you for weaponizing disability in service of a structure that is inherently extremely ableist and which excludes the vast majority of people with disability from getting their basic needs met.

Allow me to elaborate:

Food delivery services are expensive. When we’re talking about the level of disability which requires regular food prep and delivery, we’re generally talking about a person who is unemployed or underemployed, and almost certainly underpaid and/or living in poverty who likely has to deal with significantly higher expenses with regards to healthcare as well as accessibility (think things like accomodation devices and similar: showering equipment, dishwashers, kitchen gadgets, modified kitchen counters and cupboards etc.)

So you take people who are disproportionately poor and who have disproportionately high expenses for simply maintaining some level of autonomy, dignity, and health standards and then you say “But if we don’t have overpriced food delivery services available then that’s going to negatively impact people with disability!!”

How about the fact that there is a major lack of in-home support services around the world that make economical home cooking inaccessible to this demographic?

How about we address the inaccessibility inherent to society which creates a dependence upon food delivery services like the ones mentioned?

How about we consider that the “solution” to inaccessible food for people with disability is something which is itself often extremely financially inaccessible to the very people who they are claiming it’s necessary for?

You are neither the ally nor the advocate that you think you are when you deploy people with disability as a rhetorical bludgeon for your own selfish arguments.

It really is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism for people with liberal brainrot.

(I can do the spiel on how car-free cities are much more accessible to people with mobility impairments and other disability if anyone cares but probably not and this rant is already long enough as it is.)