>>213411989
>So even though they're making basically no money they probably feel fulfillment from working.
you're romantacizing it
I mean, I do feel fulfillment from getting certain orders done (especially if it's something like cough medicine for a sick child) but if it didn't make me money I'd just find a real summer job.
the main reason there are so many scab doordashers is because doordash strings you along with rewards and benefits for keeping your acceptance rating above 70%. these "benefits" are largely pointless (although they do help you a bit in terms of finding good orders) but a lot of drivers don't know that. eating the crappy $2 for 14 miles orders to access platinum rewards is not worth it since you can still get platinum-level orders with a 0% acceptance rate.
the other reason so many of them take crappy orders is because they genuinely don't take time, gas, and wear & tear into account. they just see how much money they made in a day and don't think about the cost of refueling, oil changes, etc. they're just dumb.
there's also the fact that many of them multi-app, where they string together orders from multiple delivery apps. this obviously leads to problems, but it can make taking bad offers profitable if they can pick up an order from another app going the same way.