>>3085>because people need to go out and socializeShe is right, but this is not the reason.
It wrecks the local shopping infrastructure, which wrecks the local pedestrian infrastructure which then kills the social infrastructure.
But without a social infrastructure, your "community" becomes more vulnerable to disasters. Studies have shown that communities where people know each other (from interacting on the streets or shops or wherever) will have their weakest members protected when bad things happen, while in "communities" where people don't know each other, these weak ones are forgotten.
(though, do you need a disaster to lament loneliness?)
Of course, it would be wrong to blame you personally for these grand societal changes, when that's exactly the sort of things that you have elected a government for to organize.
And the introduction of cars and supermarkets both did more to harm the average city than your online shopping will. Especially the former, which was accompanied by an intentional transformation of city layouts. We still have to live with the consequences, after so many decades.
Ultimately, I think this particular problem will probably solve itself when fuel prices rise, which I expect they will. The majority of these delivery operations are barely profitable, or genuinely in the red.