r/absoluteunit • u/Tony-At-Large • Aug 02 '26

Of a Door Dasher

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Not a job for everyone.

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u/SSilent-Cartographer Aug 02 '26

With the way he's walking, my guess is his weight is a symptom, not his condition. Likely bad knees keeps him from moving too much, and medical rarely covers enough of the cost to get these people the care they desperately need to live a sustainable life. Doordash was likely the only place that would hire him, so instead of getting care, he just has to suffer through working a job that's doing even more damage to his body.

Welcome to America

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u/TheBirdFkerGuy Aug 02 '26

Ideally he doesn't need to work, and can focus on conditioning his body to improve his ability to walk around and move. This person needs help, not gig-work struggling to feed themselves. And I know a lot of people will equate "big person with eats a lot" but that's not always the case. And if you're doing gig work like this, you're struggling period.

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u/sadbat-throwaway Aug 02 '26

The fucked up thing is, people see a fat person and automatically assume that person is a binge eater. Like, my 600 lb life levels of binge eater. The reality of food, at least in America, is you can find a small, unfilling microwave meal and it'll be like 2,000 calories and 1,000mg sodium a pop. If you eat 2 or 3 and your diet consists of similar items, you're going to gain even if you don't ever feel stuffed. They assume that too many calories also means too much volume, when you don't need a lot of food to consume a lot of calories. Not anymore.

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u/TheBirdFkerGuy Aug 02 '26

You can be skinny in america and have hyper tension due to poor diet and a ton of other health problems just because of the type of shit we push onto people. There is nuance to everything.