1. David Foster Wallace is commenting how one has to do the work to manage stress and bias. That's the truth, you work for it. You running away the stress by deferring it to someone else to handle (the delivery person or the warehouse picker) undermines his whole point.
2. So now instead of 50 cars, it's 1 truck with 50 people's worth of individually packaged goods that gets trashed.
Cattle also feel pretty good about fed three times daily before getting slaughtered.
1. A lot of the stress, at least imo, is in knowing what to get, how much to get, and balancing that against constraints like what's available at the store and price. Having to make a string of smaller decisions. Being able to do this online makes things a lot easier. I really doubt that outsourcing the mechanical part of it all - picking up, hauling, taking home the groceries - is going to stress out the workers to a comparable degree.
2. Sure, except a vehicle getting trashed will be much less likely if 50 cars are reduced to 1. Not to mention the increase in productivity due to 50 people not losing time by sitting in traffic, or being at risk of bodily harm.
2. So now instead of 50 cars, it's 1 truck with 50 people's worth of individually packaged goods that gets trashed.
Cattle also feel pretty good about fed three times daily before getting slaughtered.