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The High Cost Of "Convenience" - EARLY ACCESS, AD-FREE, AND UNCENSORED (Patreon)

Published:
2025-10-21 20:26:01
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2025-10-21 22:37:52
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2026-06
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Hi. Today we're looking at modern conveniences that have a higher cost than we'd like to admit. Amazon, Netflix, Airbnb, Doordash – all require exploiting labor, screwing over customers, and making parts of our society just a little bit worse. Is there a better way?

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Is All This "Convenience" Worth It? - PATREON

Hi. Today we're looking at modern conveniences that have a higher cost than we'd like to admit. Amazon, Netflix, Airbnb, Doordash – all require exploiting labor, screwing over customers, and making parts of our society just a little bit worse. Is there a better way?

Comments

callahanh14

Give me convenience or give me Death

Papey Towie

Cody guitar time healed me... More Cody guitar time

Michelle Gevers

No joke: minutes after finishing this episode, I learned that the Dutch (privatised) postal service is experimenting with robot dogs to carry packages from the van to people's front door. Can we please start teaching executives the difference between Utopia and DYStopia?

strawBarry

I'm almost 60 and therefore 99.99% of programming out there is not aimed at me. Therefore I canceled all *six* streaming services I was paying for, and have never been happier. I now just pay for the *specific* shows I care about (like this one.) Best money I ever spent.

Seth Barnard

I worked in the office for a delivery service that’s only here in Texas, so this episode really spoke to me, unfortunately. I had to quit, got tired of the exploitation of the drivers, then got tired of the multibillion dollar grocery company that owns the delivery company trying to exploit everyone else. I refuse to use services like that (but I understand that some people need them, saw that first hand). However, there is a way to have these companies that treat the workers well - I worked for one out of California. The secret is to pay the workers well and the execs to take reasonable salaries.

Toni Travis

This episode was a delight from beginning to A Very Bird Wars End and I needed it in my life today. Also, thanks for covering so much ground on the subject, from somebody in a remote rural area who does rely on a lot of delivery services...but who also as a disabled person used to earn pennies working for MTurk just to survive. I appreciate the nicely balanced look at the horrible system we've created.

Steven Smith

It would be great if more people disliked Reagan.

Jess Hrudey

Cody, my pet rabbit would like you to know that your “wooooOooo” at the end of your song was disturbing to her. Personally I thought it was funny, but she was unimpressed

Steve Snyder

Excellent episode! You guys constantly amaze me with your ability to make incredibly depressing topics watchable. This was another one where I was quietly saying to myself “oh God this is going to be brutal“ as I pressed play, but yet again within five minutes I am chuckling along as you break down the facts for me. Your magicians, truly.

Angela Crawford

I don't understand how you do it. The accuracy is astounding. I work in finance for a travel company and I would never expect anyone outside of my line of work to have the granular understanding and outstanding story telling that SMN pulls off every week.

Lucy

Excellent episode, as usual. I've been looking at neo-feudalism, mostly techno-feudism and Yanis Varoufakis for about a year now so this was interesting timing. Or you guys are spying on me. Either way, nice!

The Green Way

It's honestly not that hard to quit these things.

Eric Herde

Who are the maniacs who are actively seeking out same-day delivery?!?

I Swear A Lot

You are an absolute madman for writing and playing that song...I love it

John Hall

I'm a little confused on if we should continue our membership through Patreon or join through YouTube. Seems like content is now getting paywalled through that interface for "Members Only".