I have a friend who said it impacted her town when they got mail delivery to the house instead of having to pick it up at the post office. Sure it was more convenient, but people used to chat together at the post office and that connection was lost. On a different note, many of the seniors I know, including my 90 year old mother, get home grocery delivery. It is safer for them to not drive anymore, they don't have to go out in the rain or snow, and they have acesss to fresh food so they can still live independently and cook their own meals. Convenience is a double edged sword.
In the 1950s, Betty Crocker came out with a cake mix. All you had to do was add water and stick the cake in the oven. It didn't sell well and when the company did focus groups, they found that housewives wouldn't buy the cake because of guilt. Betty Crocker added eggs and milk to the recipe on the box and suddenly the cake mix sold well again. Betty Crocker's focus groups found that female consumers felt an obligation to work hard baking a cake from scratch in order to please their husbands and guests. That obligation is bullshit - so make sure you don't take the anti-convenience too far. If there truly isn't any harm caused by the convenience, we shouldn't make our lives harder than they have to be. There is enough pressure on women to be perfect already.
I agree with your sentiment that we shouldn't be putting more pressure on women to be perfect, nor should we shun "convenience". I think some people might forget the good things about convenience. What about the sick or elderly or the stay-at-home moms with young children that really appreciate conveniences such as the home delivery of essentials like food, medicine and diapers? There are truckers that drive those same essentials to the stores for our convenience. What's the difference if it's put on another truck and driven right to our doors so that we don't have to waste hours of our time getting it in person? Where does it end? If people really want to shun "convenience" why don't they give up all of their appliances? Why not live off grid with no power or Internet? Why not sell their cars and walk everywhere? All of these things are modern conveniences, which we should feel grateful for.
I have never succeeded in baking a cake from scratch. What I get is 9” round 1/2 inch thick doorstops. What a waste of time and ingredients….I’ll take a box cake mix, doctored or plain, any time!
When i moved out from my parent’s home and started living alone I came up with making «emergency cake jars»- mixed flour, cinnamon,sugar and baking powder in little jars just enough for a cake or 6 muffins - in case of an unplanned friend visit, which happened often . Then somebody told me that «cake mix» was a thing…still don’t get the idea- it takes like 5 minutes to mix.
As someone wi does a gig job occasionally, I appreciate the fact that i can expect more business in bad weather. Chelsea is a bit obnoxious to pretend she can speak for everyone because of the one testimonial she recorded. 🙄
@@faithli2131nowadays virtually all takeout delivery drivers choose when they work. They make their own schedule. If they’re delivering takeout in the rain it’s completely their choice.
I do this with uber eats, i still occasionally get it but I have to log in on my browser and go through the whole login flow + 2FA process, I can't just mindlessly open it
Has anyone pointed out the obvious, here? It shouldn't be about getting rid of convenience services, which help so many people, including myself. Instead of doing the Boomer trope of "I walked to school in 10 feet of snow, and so should you", we should be making tighter regulations and requirements for how businesses treat their people and pay them properly. We are a service economy; thanks to technology, this is the case. We're not going backwards in time to where working in dangerous factories is the norm and doing everything by hand is the "only way". Force businesses to pay and treat their people well; our service economy will continue, and as much as people apparently hate it, what do you think "services" are? This includes a lot of convenience services, many which became necessary during the COVID pandemic. I'm not into shaming people for using a service, when the root of the actual problem is the greedy corporations who don't pay their people enough and treat them like shit. If the employees of these "gig" jobs were paid well and treated properly, the only excuse you would have is that things should be done "the hard way", which IMO, is incredibly subjective and silly. I normally love your videos, but this one was way off base for me.
Everything in our lives is filled with conveniences and things that we outsource to other people. Most people don't grow or raise their own food, make their own clothes or build their own house. We rely on a vast network of people that work hard in order for us to eat, be clothed and have a roof over our heads with plumbing, heat and cooling. Those are all "conveniences", but people may have lost sight of that. If that were taken into account, then the entire world is full of adult toddlers.
yeah, i'm with you on this one. too much of the video felt very 'nobody wants to work today'. i think what it comes down to is that people feel uncomfortable with working conditions for people who provide these services, and instead of deciding to try and improve those conditions they're more comfortable just eliminating the jobs altogether - even though a massive amount of Americans would lose significant chunks of their income if this happened. and also, like you said, there's a lot of moral value placed on doing work for works sake, which makes people even more inclined to think the answer is that everyone should just stop being a big baby - or adult toddler - and stop using the services.
@@neriah9969 I’m with you, but the reality *is* underpaid and overworked people, and I DO think we need to moralize the ethics of utilizing that if you don’t really need to. We’ve already un-moralized buying from absolutely heinous overseas companies, and doing it here will make things worse for everyone. Like we aren’t safe from the gig economy in basically any job that doesn’t require a doctorate - we should be *extremely* cautious about buying in to a system like this
It is being tried in Seattle. It is deeply unpopular with many gig workers. Largely, because the fees get passed onto the consumer, they don't want to pay what the labor involved is worth.
I do think rideshare apps greatly improved on the taxi model, at least for consumers. I remember our crew missing a flight out LaGuardia once after a work event, because every cab we wasted time flagging down refused to drive to the airport from Manhattan. Also, the number of times I was wildly overcharged for a cab ride because a driver knew I was unfamiliar with the area and took me on a very "scenic route." I love knowing how much my ride is going to cost me BEFORE I get in the car, not after I've arrived at my destination and am frantically trying to scrape together cash for a trip that should have been $20, but was now closer to $30. In my opinion, that industry needed to be shaken up.
I love this video but please take into account: There were people before (mostly women) doing the convenience work for the family. Fe my aunt was always working full time as a boomer, but my grandma was cooking for her, her husband and her daughter.
@ I want to say : we are not the first generation to use convenience services. We are the first to pay for it. And obviously (esp in the us) not enough.
Another great, and considerate video from TFD! I stopped my amazon prime years ago - I find it to be much better to buy things locally. There are times when I do need to order from amazon, but when you don't use it that often they are always trying to entice you into getting prime by giving you a free month. In those desperate situations, I will take the free month, buy the things I need, and then immediately cancel the membership. Even if you cancel immediately after activation, you still get the benefits for the full month.
I have to say I chuckle when I think of the negativity around the new age conveniences, when back in the day people could have literally all of their staples delivered to their homes on a daily or near daily basis (milkman anyone?).
Yup! It reminds me of every older person who has ever done the whole "You kids are so lazy! I used to walk 2 miles in 10 feet of snow everyday to school!" Like, we have serious issues facing us as a country. People having access to convenience apps is the last thing on my radar, unless we want to approach this from a "fuck these corporations, make them pay and treat their people ethically" viewpoint. I'm all on board for that. But when you start tying morality to convenience, I immediately know you're being ridiculous.
Look, if you say fuck it I want to pay 30 dollars for 10 dollars worth of food that's fine. But most people know they really can't afford it, do it anyway and rationalize it by pretending it's actually cheaper to get doordash than it is to learn to cook and plan like an adult.
True. Mostly because in the case of my neighborhood, the mother stayed home with the kids and didn't have access to a car. We also had a fruit and vegetable truck that used to come by. All the kids loved the vendor - such a wonderful man.
True, but a big difference is that those services were sustainable and less bad for the environment. Glass milk bottles were reused. They were also good jobs with benefits and labor unions. They were also members of the community-people knew the milkman (some people knew the milkman VERY well, lol!). Actually, the milkman is a great example of all of the things Chelsea is advocating for in this video: ethical convenience.
@@midorisour2844 Can confirm. My father was a milkman in the '80s. Every milkman had the same route, and they knew what people would need. It was also a pretty laid-back job, and he'd have coffee breaks at people's houses. Neighbors would meet almost daily when the milkman came. So it was very much a community thing.
I'm a big fan of TFD but I don't know about this video, and so I'm going to write a big wall of text... As democratic socialists, I think you all understand that individual consumer habits cannot and do not change the behavior of corporations. That's why things like labor rights and anti-trust laws exist, because the owning class will always have a financial incentive to exploit the working class and behave it ways that minimize overhead and maximize profit. That's not saying that boycotts and stuff like that don't work, but saying people should stop using Doordash if possible is not a boycott. The treatment of gig workers is a result of 1) legislative incompetence, and 2) massive lobbying efforts by corporations to be allowed to call their employees contractors to avoid paying any kind of benefits, or even paying them a minimum wage. A few years ago I decided to never use Amazon next day shipping again because of the issues that your guest mentioned. Using next day shipping made me feel bad, and not using it made me feel a little better, like I was less complicit in the problem. But me not using same day shipping has literally no tangible effect on any amazon worker ever. Market share was not affected by me limiting myself to one order a month. Conversely, I don't have a car and live in an area without reliable public transit, so when I can't get a ride to the store, I use Instacart. I use the app about once a month, and I feel I have a pretty good reason when I do. But that doesn't mean that Instacart is going to treat the employee getting my groceries better. When it comes to labor rights and economic policy, I think it can be dangerous to moralize the use of certain goods or services, because then it becomes very easy to just say we should eliminate those services altogether even when they do a lot of good for people, and provide a lot of jobs. Most people I know that work for gig apps are either trying to make some extra money on the side (adding an additional stream of income, something this channel recommends), or they literally can't find another job. Workers aren't being exploited because Gen Z and millennials have become uniquely selfish and lazy, it's because these apps employ vulnerable people who have no other options.
Hear hear! Excellent point. It's not enough to vote for with your dollar, you have to vote with your effing vote. Americans (and the rest of the globe) are going to have a rude awakening come January. Canada is bracing for a recession, I recommend the rest of you do the same. Yes, things are rough now. They're about to get so much worse, including cost of living and workers protections. I mean, ahem, all hail our corporate overlords. If anyone isn't sure what I'm referring to, do yourself a favour and actually look up what tariffs are, and then maybe google how 2025 tariffs will affect your country. Even our conservative premiers, who have their tongues waaaaay up a certain incoming president's butthole, are freaking out. May we all take the next 4 years as a big f'n lesson on corporate interference in government, and how even once semi-socialist countries like Canada are barreling towards a "free market" economy that will nickel and dime us to death and not have the decency to pay us a decent wage or benefits while we bleed out.
TLDR: it’s not just about who you choose NOT to support through your purchases, it’s also how your purchases can have a positive influence at a local level. I agree that your purchasing decisions are unlikely to have an effect on the big company you are trying to avoid. But purchasing decisions are not just about having a negative effect they also have a positive one. For example, I am lucky to have many bric-a-brac shops on my local high street which sells many of the things people would order from Amazon for convenience (and for the same price if you account for delivery/subscriptions). Those shops are a dying breed because of the move towards e-commerce even though they provide a very tangible service to their communities. The trend over all is less middle class-owned small shops which provide people with financial autonomy and consolidation of retail where one corporation is taking a bigger cut and work is more precarious for all the gig workers working for them. We need antitrust too, but this does have a positive effect at the local level.
Best and easiest thing I did was start writing down any discretionary spend in my phone notes section. Everything. That way I can keep track of how much I am spending and modify.
Great work Chelsea. I delivered for Uber before. The company and customers treat us like crap. I never use delivery apps because if customers knew what really goes on during the delivery they wouldn't eat the food...
I used to do food delivery too. It was difficult work for little pay. And the worst is when customers bait you with tips and then withdraw them after you deliver their food....I will never understand people that do that
My biggest level up for managing my life like an adult has been a task management system (like Asana, Monday, or Todoist). Now, I proactively tackle recurring tasks, and can also make reminders for one-of tasks to do them at some specific time. It has helped me take up so much more mental load off of my wife and place it onto me.
Not using delivery apps during bad weather for morality reasons is a weird argument. If nobody orders stuff, drivers can't work - no demand = no pay. Drivers are willing to go out on the roads regardless because they NEED money, and they aren't afforded paid time off. It's like saying unpaid factory work is morally wrong because of occupational hazard, when the actual issue is insufficient compensation + benefits. On the flip side, firefighters are in incredibly dangerous work but are compensated well - it's about how society/systems value your labour.
Regardless of all of this, consumers (myself included) don't understand the true cost of products and goods. Cheap stuff is not supposed to be THIS cheap.... the cost is being paid by someone else somewhere (suppressed wages, poor working conditions, outsourcing, etc).
we used doordash a lot during covid but almost never now that it’s like $100 per order. now we just use the app to organize our order and then call the restaurant, order directly from them and go pick it up because it’s way cheaper lol
We have these same delivery services here in Europe, but nobody would expect the courier to leave your food "on dry ice" or you not being home. They call you and you have to confirm you're home. Nobody would even dream of ordering and not being home to pick it up? Weird.
I loved the video Chelsea. Something else I keep thinking about when it comes to convenience is I feel like a lot of service apps on our phones remove our own ownership of our lives. For example, I know a lot of people who don't grocery shop for themselves and spend little to no time browsing new products at the grocery store or have no idea how their local grocery store is organized. And I think that is simply jarring because it completely erases our awareness of our own surroundings. Similarly living in a city I've interacted with a few young adults who do not drive and kind of take Ubers everywhere and sort of don't really know the general directions of the city like which way is North? Which way is south? Which highway goes east? Which Highway goes west? Which I think is so concerning just from a safety perspective but also because it just erases our perception of our place in the world (if that makes sense...). That lack of awareness is what think about when i saw the title. Really enjoyed the video essay! Cant wait for the next one!
The gps thing is me honestly. I’ve lived in my current city for 2 years and still have no clue how to get around without my maps app (aside from a few close by things) I’ve been trying to actively remember different freeways and their directions because if anything happened or I lost my phone somewhere I’d be stuck 😟
Nah, that makes sense. The more your phone magically provides for you, the less connected you are to the Real. The less connection you have to the world outside of your house.
Even when phones weren't a thing, people still used maps and compasses lol. Most people dont know their sense of direction. Its a legit skill, that you thankfully have
What I hate about online shopping is you can physicality get more than I can locally. I go to brick and mortar and cannot find what I'm looking for but amazon has something much closer. You have to make the ethical call that you will get something less desirable to avoid the mega company.
That's what I've noticed most of the time too. I live in a large city too but multiple times I spent hours looking for things that I ended up having to get online anyway.
I'm so confused. You promoted convenience-app deleting app( EHICH IS A FEATURE ON EVERY PHONE)- then immediately mention how we fall for said convenience. That contradiction disrupted my listening abruptly.
'convenience culture is killing us here is an ad for convenience therapy' ...i know sponsorships are just a thing you have do deal with, but damn that whiplash x.x
I let my prime membership lapse because I didn’t use it every month, and I figured i could always use a family member’s account if i needed something that I couldn’t get from a local place. I do use grocery pick up a lot, single mom of three kids and a teacher its a life saver.
I would be interested if ride sharing like uber and Lyft has reduced people driving while drunk. I know if my wife and I are going out and we are planning on drinking we will we take an uber instead of driving.
I remember the first moment I arrived in the US to study, from Latin America. I really felt it was a country made for babies. Everything was so easy and convenient, I couldn't believe it.
I haven't ordered food delivery since January 2024. I enjoy doing freezer meal prepping which means each week, I don't have to stress over what to eat that week. Instead, I can shop from my freezer and avoid having that urge to run out and grab take-out or do delivery. I have taken the stress away from deciding as I technically plan far ahead every time I fill my freezer with a new batch of cooked meals.
I get my midday meals delivered by Meals-on-Wheels, but I go out and shop local for everything I can... I don't use apps and am on snap benefits so any small store taking the snap ebt card near my apartment is likely to get my business... Mind you I am 63 and use a walker with a doctor's admonition to walk more. Streetcars and Bss drivers are my friends in this endevor I call life.
I wonder if there's ever going to come a time when it will be normal for average sized apartments (not microlofts,) to not have a range anymore and only have a microwave because average people won't be expected to know how to cook from scratch or want to do it, unless they went to culinary school or worked in a restaurant. We live in a time where you could go years without using an oven or a stove if you wanted to. Of course, it's way more expensive and less healthy, but I think that's going to change in the coming decades, to the point where having a kitchen with a range is going to be like having a sewing machine. Think about it, years ago lots of people used to sew their own clothes because they needed to or because it was cheaper. But now stores are full of cheap clothes and making your own is just an optional hobby.
@@cdnchevry Yeah, I second that. I love to cook and bake and I learned how to make cinnamon buns. They take a lot of effort "from scratch" but they are worth it. I still am grateful for the "convenience" of a hand mixer to help me mix the dough. We're all working with some level of convenience.
A lot of people in history didn't have a oven in cities because it is was easier to bake bread in one oven at the bakers, there has been takeout since ancient times. It not just a modern thing
While super misguided, I feel like this is one reason why baby boomers are so enamored with the Trump “Make America Great Again” slogan. Some may be racists, yes. But I know my boomer parents bemoan the loss of community and the coldness of society and growing isolation. The older they are getting, the more convenience culture and hyper consumerism are growing. In many ways, my parents don’t even feel like they are a part of this world anymore. I’m an elder millennial and I think we are such a unique demographic because we grew up as kids with no internet but the mass explosion of the internet as adults. It really is kind of jarring remembering childhood vs now in terms of convenience and community. IMO, throw away culture had leached from hyper consumerism/convenience products to now personal and community relationships where people are just less dependable and way more flaky
I agree that the exploitation of these workers is a big problem but that's systemic, that's not the fault of the consumers. EVERYBODY is overworked and underpaid now, and using these conveniences makes life easier and more manageable. I don't think it's fair to blame people for choosing to make their difficult lives easier. The companies are the problem.
I really dont see an issue with this. I couldnt be a single soccer mom with 2 kids and a full time job without all these things at my convenience. its either convenience or no home cooked meals.
The convenience of apps and gig work is killing us, I think. Obviously it’s great for people with disabilities or limited time. But I also think the “ugh I just don’t want to X right now” mindset is really harmful for us all, as described in the video. Yeah, going to buy groceries is going to suck a little more than staying at home, but all you’re doing is offloading that task to someone else who may or may not have a choice to do it. The gig economy is coming for all of us if we don’t actively choose to not engage with it. Take a minute to ask yourself if your job *really* couldn’t be done by someone paid by the project - it almost certainly can. The gig economy will come for you, too
You realise that people with limited time is literally anyone with a full time job? "Yeah, going to buy groceries is going to suck a little more than staying at home, but all you’re doing is offloading that task to someone else who may or may not have a choice to do it." Same with production, growing food, transportation, etc. like that's literally how jobs work.
@ yeah, I do get that. As a person who buys her own damn groceries and also works 50-60 hours a week, I do get it. Your position that “but it’s hard” is exactly what I’m talking about. We all got our own groceries 5 years ago. And look I’m no Luddite, the world progresses, but I think it’s important that we don’t passively absorb the *way* it progresses because…. we’re tired after work?
No, it's not killing us. Corporations who don't treat their employees ethically, so that they can greedily put more millions in their pockets, is what is killing Americans. In more ways than I can possibly list here. If gig workers were treated well, you're only excuse would be "well, we just SHOULD do it the old way".
I'm really sick and tired of getting called "entitled" or an "adult child" by some bougie writers who've never lifted a finger in their life while trying to work blue collar jobs.
What a strange, tone deaf video. We outsource a lot because everyone works fulltime jobs. We don’t have a stay-at-home-partner to do the things we otherwise wouldn’t outsource.
My fiance and I are opposites. I almost never want to do delivery because of the added cost, I'd rather go in, pick it up, and stretch my legs a bit. He would rather have the comfort and not have to worry about crowds or parking. On the other hand, I am inclined to order delivery in bad weather. Fortunately, my fiance always points out the callousness of that choice and we make something from home instead. It's never intentional, I just have the practical thought that if they're open, they'll deliver. I'm glad he reminds me, though. I do want people to be safe, I just don't always think of it. When you mentioned it here, I had the same punch in the gut that I get when he points it out. I was trying to understand what you were leading up to but I just couldn't see it myself. Another benefit to community: compassion. After I started working in retail while in college my mom told me that she started shopping more tidily to make less work for the employees. We had to stay after closing until the store was back to normal. I had a friend who worked at the movie theater, I always cleaned up after myself (10 minutes to clean the whole theater!)-- and another who worked in a pharmacy, I'm patient and ask for advice to fix issues. My dad was in construction, I slow down in construction zones. I think I'm generally a nice person, and these are considered basics for most people, but the care with which you do them changes. You're not just making sure that you leave no trace (shyness/invisibility) or get things over with faster and not rocking the boat, you're doing them with someone in mind, even if it's not the same person that will benefit. You're thinking about their experience, too. That perspective shift changes your attitude and, for me, brings a sense of peace as well.
I’d like to ad a different perspective. My partner and I both work fulltime and we have two school aged kids. Making use of online grocery shopping, meal delivery once a week, clothes/errand shopping online, etc, is a necesity to sustain this model. If these services are not in place you run the risk of pushing back women into the home at the expense of their career and financial independence. I see these services as facilitating emancipation of women. However this should not come at the expense of workers, fair waged are key and I support that whole heartitly.
I don’t do much of this because I live out in the country where I’m only a 10 minute drive away from the main city area and they still won’t deliver pizza here 😹 Much of this type service isn’t available, or was not until very recently but I’m not up for the extra cost.
I feel like companies give people an option to pay just a little more so that the rest of their customers dont become my hassle. Ill tip well to get my groceries delivered because i cannot stand how rude and dumb most customers are. I cant stand how much they love wasting the time of others by being dramatic and holding checkout lines hostage. I prefer capsule over walgreens. It keeps me a more peaceful person to not wait an hour in line for my meds, because walgreens refuses to staff properly and each customer seems to require 20 minutes each of complaining and trying to extract free therapy from a very overworked tech. I blame the companies for making their other customers unbearable to deal with.
I think it's by design in more ways than just customers. Haven't you noticed that when you go shopping in person they almost never have the exact size or type of product you were looking for? My husband often will try to get things in person and then decide to just buy it online because the store didn't seem to have anything in stock and the staff didn't even know enough to answer his questions. The best was one time when we asked a staff member how much something was and they just said, "I don't know," and walked away. The experience of shopping in person generally sucks!
I do love a TFD video that makes me feel like I’ve got my shit together. I only order food delivery when I’m wasted, and I always wait outside and meet the delivery worker on the road side so they can scoot off as fast as they can. I call this ‘behavioural tipping’ and it’s how, perhaps wrongly, rationalise and justify not tipping with cash. I’m also Australia and we don’t tip here. We use to be able to get away with it coz hospo wages are so good here, but the apps have changed everything.
Sorry, Hospo wages used* to be good. All our wages used to be good, but the post pandemic inflation and 30 years of neoliberal shitfkery has taken its toll.
I commented on a Facebook post I would not order delivery if I would not drive due to weather. However I did get a lot of responses from people who (1) were counting on the money from that shift - so no orders is a day without income, and (2) they usually made the most money in bad weather so looked forward to it because at least in some neighborhoods itnresulted in giant tips. So I waffle on that. Like if you order a $15 pizza and tip 100% and if yiou asked the driver "should I?" And they say "yes please, the weather is like this 10 days a year, I can't not work those days." And putting that money into a Fidelity Account instead for retirement, which is what I should do with it, is not going to benefit anyone without a sizeable stock portfolio. I guess it will benefit boomers with big stock portfolios trying to retire who need someone to buy their stocks and bonds.
Similar concern: My drycleaners has operated for 50-100 years. But now that dress shirts are $5+ each to launder, I might do my own. That's money I am taking away from a local non chain business. Which again I want to give to a huge financial institution to use to make more. Since putting my money in the stick market disproportionately benefits the 0.1% by bumping overall stock values).
So Americans are responsible adults if they drive their gas-guzzling SUVs to the grocery store where the bounty of the world is gathered for their consumption: fruit flown in from Chile, food canned in Mexico, cheap plastic gadgets from China, all picked, preserved, and manufactured in near slave-labor conditions. But if you pay an extra $10 to have that same shit delivered to your door by someone driving a more efficient vehicle with a planned route minimizing gas consumption, you're an adult toddler. You may get your wish on this one, like Brexiters who wanted the UK to be more self-sufficient. A year later they were sharing tips on which kinds of moldy food were still safe to eat. Fewer and fewer of us will be able to afford the extra $10, we'll do our own shopping again inefficiently in our giant cars; traffic gets worse, gig workers stop making money, so even fewer people can afford conveniences, so more of us do our own errands, eliminating more jobs... sounds like a recession, and those always make the lives of vulnerable people better! Good job, very helpful.
Yes! I don't understand how people could afford all these "conviniences." When I was in my 20s, I could barely afford my rent and this was in pre-internet and pre-cell phone days! I don't see how these young people are affording all these deliveries! My neighb or is 28 and always has Doordash or Postmates and still complains about money and how as a Boomer, I must have had it so easy! Yes, so easy that I can't even look at Top Ramen w/o turning green, I ate so much of it!
I lean towards capitalism (with some socialist elements), but hear me out. I would not blame the customer in this case. It's hard to always think about who abuses workers, etc etc when you work two jobs and all your friends use Amazon. I believe blitzscaling and selling products and services at lower than their production costs should be considered dumping and anti-competitive. It should be illegal to demolish your competition by using investor money to survive while selling at a loss on purpose. If companies would be fined per product sold like that they would stop and then your mom&pop shop would be competitive again.
Some of these conveniences are really good for people with disabilities. Making them affordable for people that really do need things delivered for them. It’s complicated.
Or people who work fulltime jobs. Idk about you all, but working fulltime, cooking and keeping the house clean is for me impossible. I was in a constant state of burnout before I started outsourcing some parts of my weekly tasks.
@@Ashina12345 I empathize as I also work full time and have an all-around busy schedule, but we shouldn't be demanding for services that ultimately cannot be this cheap without an exploitative business model to continue existing. Rather we should be advocating for the root cause to change and force companies to implement for example a four day workweek (as a start), which would provide people with full time jobs with more free time to take care of their own shit and not feel like it's eating up any free time they have left after working, often overtime. The same is true for people with disabilities: Why are they not getting help in a different form? Why are they getting so little benefits that they cannot afford "convenience" at its real price (for them a necessity really) without offloading the cost to gig workers? It's capitalism's divide and conquer strategy working when really the working class and people with disabilites are on the same side and that is not the side of capital.
I always thought it was strange that there would be so many orders in the lobby of my building on rainy or snowy days. I don't order uber eats or any of those, I feel weird having someone else deliver food I could simply go out myself and get or cook at home
I can’t wait to hear about this! As a millennial, I’m honestly tired of other millennials not submitting to being adults and complaining all the time instead. I see millennials writing articles about not being ready to organize family gatherings, or bring a dish to an occasion, or to help babysit younger family members. They want to eternally receive and never take up the mantle of being the new leaders. It’s ridiculous at this point. Grow up
This might just be an unfortunate side effect of whatever internet bubbles you're in and what the algos are feeding you? And that's meant with zero judgment - one cannot exist on the internet anymore without that happening. Because while I'll encounter "woof being an adult is hard" confessional/"look I'm so so relatable" overshares, this is definitely not the vibe overall. Extending from "eked out an education, including some amount of college" MAGA family to "multiple advanced degrees/lawyer/doctor" friends (I don't _want_ to frame this as a direct contrast - all these folks are coastal and privileged in many respects - but anecdotally, it has proven to be a pretty strong contrast 🤷🏼♀️ But all on top of it with respect to being able to handle sh** as basic as you cite) Edit: also a millennial here, and referencing a decent, albeit anecdotal, sample size of other millennials
That reminds me of the large number of adults that no longer want to get married or have children. If they can't even handle bringing a meal to a potluck, that is pretty sad.
@@greenamber9827 I believe that God made us all with free will to make our own choices. It seems like many people today do not want to get married or have children. Those things carry a lot of responsibility and possible pain, so many people seem to want to avoid them. I think that we can all agree that getting married and having children are very "adult" things to do.
I feel like a lot of these things started as communal ideas, like car sharing or ask a friend/neighbour to bring you something when you know where they are out or casual offering help with tasks for a small fee or in exchange for something and then putting a price tag on it. Which is very sad.
I feel like the chick with the farm was practically in tears and just sounded so whiny. I don't know why but I found it hard to care. Maybe I'm a monster.
Convenien culture sounds a lot tamer vs "mama bird-ing" 😂 which is what it all feels like. Some stranger chewing your food for you and spitting int into your mouth.
I ask myself that all the time. I'm 67 & just SMDH over the mass psychosis. I've heard of it in history (Witch trials, Crusades, etc) but we're living it now. Dark times ahead. Humans have been devolving instead of evolving into a better species
This channel has something to do with it. Look at the title of the previous video. Also, she kind of perpetuates some myths about money, prices and quality. More money doesn't mean better quality.
@@danirayyeYou know what trait / skill (because it also can be learned) millennials and those that have followed them lack? Taking responsibility for themselves - taking stock / self-awareness.
I refuse to pay for Amazon Prime or expedited delivery but usually get free shipping and will wait for it to arrive. On occasion something I order will be delivered on Sunday. There is nothing that i need and have ordered on-line has to employ someone on Sunday to deliver it to me.
i will fully accept accusations of both entitlement and privilege, of course. how could i not as a white guy living in the global north? even as someone with little money, i live in a magical kingdom with trivial access to electricity, information, clean water and groceries. meat here is often cheaper per kilogram than vegetables. petroleum is cheaper per liter than bottled water or coffee all of this wealth based on rapacious theft from the global south and robbing aboriginal peoples of their futures and some of us dare complain about it. whine about the inflation or whatever. it's gross i won't accept, though, an accusation that this entitlement and privilege belongs to my generation. it is western entitlement and privilege, period; that fact it has changed shape and has a new vibe hasn't fundamentally changed anything. the unsustainable manufacturing fantasy kingdom was every bit as entitled and privileged - the fact it involved factory work and salaries rather than gig work and apps did not make it any more honorable or equitable
Maybe a dozen years ago, I got into a little spat with UPS over a delivery. It was back when Amazon did almost all of their shipping through UPS. So I tallied up the number of Amazon orders I’d placed in the previous six months and discovered it was … 102. I was shocked. It immediately resolved the issued with UPS in my favor. But I think if I checked the last six months, I’d find soooo many more. I just order whatever I want, whenever I feel like it, usually around-the-clock. Because I’m a 58 year-old toddler with no supervision. 😮
Ordering, using fast deliveries and getting things to your door is definitely almost worldwide thing, but US really is in it’s own league, this sounds so foreign to me.
Honestly I usually get my groceries delivered to my house but today I went to the store at 5pm and it was hell. So crowded, so many people everywhere blocking the aisles, chatting in the middle of the aisle, walking super slow. I literally couldn’t stand it, it gave me anxiety. I’m sticking to delivery service and I’m grateful for it.
What I don't understand is why can't local stores sell items cheaper than Amazon? Why won't restaurants sell food cheaper to you if you purchase from them directly (they won't even take orders on their websites)? Why won't uber drivers give us their business cards while offering us lower rates if we pay them directly with cash? Consumers want good products with good prices. Convenience is secondary, we're surely ok waiting a week if that means the item will be 30% cheaper. I frequently go to my local dollar store so I can purchase cheap items without the shipping expenses that are baked on the price of most amazon items (no free lunch there, free shipping is frequently a lie that is less obvious on pricier items but try purchasing things under 7 or 8 dollars). Sometimes that's not possible and I have to lose to Amazon or wait a month to get something directly from China. Wealth wise I have been frugal for many years. Sometimes more than I care to admit. Without enough income, and without gambling in the stock market (and succeeding) I wasn't able to purchase even one of the cheapest inhabitable (before extensive repairs) houses in a 100 Km radius from where I live (Rotterdam, Netherlands). It's important that we shame people less for their consumer habits (within reason, there's excess, of course) but focus on the fact negative real interest rates drain our funds before we can save enough to do anything with that money (not everybody has access to credit, specially if you don't have a proper / guaranteed stable income like a salary). That also motivates people to burn their resources quickly, as it's going to be worth less year after year. Can't prepay for non discretionary expenses to lock in present prices either. I tried to pay rent and utilities in advance, no space to negotiate. We can buy food in advance, but only so much. I notice huge savings from items I purchased years ago that I am still using (within their expiration). Some cost me half of what they're being sold for right now and I can still use them for the next couple of years. I wish we could prepay for energy, health insurance, fuel etc. I know we can invest on futures, but that doesn't match the price we, as consumers, pay for things. Those go up by 10% but grocery stores sell the same items for twice the price because they're rising margins or because governments rise taxes or because wages went up. Sorry, I ended up writing too long of a comment. 🤦🏻♂
For the last 20 years, I have had groceries delivered. I stopped a few weeks ago. Even here in Norway where there are so many employees protection rules, the delivery services have been able to abuse it over and over again. They made so much money with covid and their excuse is that they are struggling for money. I can get my own groceries once a week.
I don’t do Amazon shopping that much but somehow, I always knew that overwhelming the system because I want something early is not the serve we think it is.
I think most adults in USA are toddlers but not for convenience apps, more for the general cultural self absorbed attitude. (Myself included). However, I moved to small town France and had a child which both have made me see everything very differently .
This is a weird viewpoint. Who is to judge who deserves what kind of convenience? You? Honestly, of someone wants to provide it and you have the money to buy it, I don’t see the harm. (All within the realms of the law). Someone deciding who’s entitled to what, that’s communism.
Ordering, using fast deliveries and getting things to your door is definitely almost worldwide thing, but US really is in it’s own league, this sounds so foreign to me.
I have a friend who said it impacted her town when they got mail delivery to the house instead of having to pick it up at the post office. Sure it was more convenient, but people used to chat together at the post office and that connection was lost. On a different note, many of the seniors I know, including my 90 year old mother, get home grocery delivery. It is safer for them to not drive anymore, they don't have to go out in the rain or snow, and they have acesss to fresh food so they can still live independently and cook their own meals. Convenience is a double edged sword.
In the 1950s, Betty Crocker came out with a cake mix. All you had to do was add water and stick the cake in the oven. It didn't sell well and when the company did focus groups, they found that housewives wouldn't buy the cake because of guilt. Betty Crocker added eggs and milk to the recipe on the box and suddenly the cake mix sold well again. Betty Crocker's focus groups found that female consumers felt an obligation to work hard baking a cake from scratch in order to please their husbands and guests. That obligation is bullshit - so make sure you don't take the anti-convenience too far. If there truly isn't any harm caused by the convenience, we shouldn't make our lives harder than they have to be. There is enough pressure on women to be perfect already.
I agree with your sentiment that we shouldn't be putting more pressure on women to be perfect, nor should we shun "convenience". I think some people might forget the good things about convenience. What about the sick or elderly or the stay-at-home moms with young children that really appreciate conveniences such as the home delivery of essentials like food, medicine and diapers? There are truckers that drive those same essentials to the stores for our convenience. What's the difference if it's put on another truck and driven right to our doors so that we don't have to waste hours of our time getting it in person?
Where does it end? If people really want to shun "convenience" why don't they give up all of their appliances? Why not live off grid with no power or Internet? Why not sell their cars and walk everywhere? All of these things are modern conveniences, which we should feel grateful for.
I have never succeeded in baking a cake from scratch. What I get is 9” round 1/2 inch thick doorstops. What a waste of time and ingredients….I’ll take a box cake mix, doctored or plain, any time!
When i moved out from my parent’s home and started living alone I came up with making «emergency cake jars»- mixed flour, cinnamon,sugar and baking powder in little jars just enough for a cake or 6 muffins - in case of an unplanned friend visit, which happened often . Then somebody told me that «cake mix» was a thing…still don’t get the idea- it takes like 5 minutes to mix.
As someone wi does a gig job occasionally, I appreciate the fact that i can expect more business in bad weather. Chelsea is a bit obnoxious to pretend she can speak for everyone because of the one testimonial she recorded. 🙄
@@faithli2131nowadays virtually all takeout delivery drivers choose when they work. They make their own schedule. If they’re delivering takeout in the rain it’s completely their choice.
I deleted the Amazon app a couple of months ago and haven’t looked back. Cutting out the convenience has drastically helped my spending!
And the environment!
Same. It was to much of an easy access for me.
I do this with uber eats, i still occasionally get it but I have to log in on my browser and go through the whole login flow + 2FA process, I can't just mindlessly open it
Has anyone pointed out the obvious, here? It shouldn't be about getting rid of convenience services, which help so many people, including myself. Instead of doing the Boomer trope of "I walked to school in 10 feet of snow, and so should you", we should be making tighter regulations and requirements for how businesses treat their people and pay them properly.
We are a service economy; thanks to technology, this is the case. We're not going backwards in time to where working in dangerous factories is the norm and doing everything by hand is the "only way". Force businesses to pay and treat their people well; our service economy will continue, and as much as people apparently hate it, what do you think "services" are? This includes a lot of convenience services, many which became necessary during the COVID pandemic.
I'm not into shaming people for using a service, when the root of the actual problem is the greedy corporations who don't pay their people enough and treat them like shit. If the employees of these "gig" jobs were paid well and treated properly, the only excuse you would have is that things should be done "the hard way", which IMO, is incredibly subjective and silly.
I normally love your videos, but this one was way off base for me.
Everything in our lives is filled with conveniences and things that we outsource to other people. Most people don't grow or raise their own food, make their own clothes or build their own house. We rely on a vast network of people that work hard in order for us to eat, be clothed and have a roof over our heads with plumbing, heat and cooling. Those are all "conveniences", but people may have lost sight of that. If that were taken into account, then the entire world is full of adult toddlers.
yeah, i'm with you on this one. too much of the video felt very 'nobody wants to work today'. i think what it comes down to is that people feel uncomfortable with working conditions for people who provide these services, and instead of deciding to try and improve those conditions they're more comfortable just eliminating the jobs altogether - even though a massive amount of Americans would lose significant chunks of their income if this happened. and also, like you said, there's a lot of moral value placed on doing work for works sake, which makes people even more inclined to think the answer is that everyone should just stop being a big baby - or adult toddler - and stop using the services.
We're a service economy because we exploit the third world
@@neriah9969 I’m with you, but the reality *is* underpaid and overworked people, and I DO think we need to moralize the ethics of utilizing that if you don’t really need to.
We’ve already un-moralized buying from absolutely heinous overseas companies, and doing it here will make things worse for everyone. Like we aren’t safe from the gig economy in basically any job that doesn’t require a doctorate - we should be *extremely* cautious about buying in to a system like this
It is being tried in Seattle. It is deeply unpopular with many gig workers. Largely, because the fees get passed onto the consumer, they don't want to pay what the labor involved is worth.
I do think rideshare apps greatly improved on the taxi model, at least for consumers. I remember our crew missing a flight out LaGuardia once after a work event, because every cab we wasted time flagging down refused to drive to the airport from Manhattan. Also, the number of times I was wildly overcharged for a cab ride because a driver knew I was unfamiliar with the area and took me on a very "scenic route." I love knowing how much my ride is going to cost me BEFORE I get in the car, not after I've arrived at my destination and am frantically trying to scrape together cash for a trip that should have been $20, but was now closer to $30. In my opinion, that industry needed to be shaken up.
I love this video but please take into account: There were people before (mostly women) doing the convenience work for the family.
Fe my aunt was always working full time as a boomer, but my grandma was cooking for her, her husband and her daughter.
The labour is always there, we have to just value and acknowledge it.
@ I want to say : we are not the first generation to use convenience services. We are the first to pay for it. And obviously (esp in the us) not enough.
Another great, and considerate video from TFD! I stopped my amazon prime years ago - I find it to be much better to buy things locally. There are times when I do need to order from amazon, but when you don't use it that often they are always trying to entice you into getting prime by giving you a free month. In those desperate situations, I will take the free month, buy the things I need, and then immediately cancel the membership. Even if you cancel immediately after activation, you still get the benefits for the full month.
I'll be honest. I saw the video title and now I want chicken nuggets.
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But only the dinosaurs ones
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I literally just got done eating chicken tenders
I have to say I chuckle when I think of the negativity around the new age conveniences, when back in the day people could have literally all of their staples delivered to their homes on a daily or near daily basis (milkman anyone?).
Yup! It reminds me of every older person who has ever done the whole "You kids are so lazy! I used to walk 2 miles in 10 feet of snow everyday to school!"
Like, we have serious issues facing us as a country. People having access to convenience apps is the last thing on my radar, unless we want to approach this from a "fuck these corporations, make them pay and treat their people ethically" viewpoint. I'm all on board for that.
But when you start tying morality to convenience, I immediately know you're being ridiculous.
Look, if you say fuck it I want to pay 30 dollars for 10 dollars worth of food that's fine. But most people know they really can't afford it, do it anyway and rationalize it by pretending it's actually cheaper to get doordash than it is to learn to cook and plan like an adult.
True. Mostly because in the case of my neighborhood, the mother stayed home with the kids and didn't have access to a car. We also had a fruit and vegetable truck that used to come by. All the kids loved the vendor - such a wonderful man.
True, but a big difference is that those services were sustainable and less bad for the environment. Glass milk bottles were reused. They were also good jobs with benefits and labor unions. They were also members of the community-people knew the milkman (some people knew the milkman VERY well, lol!). Actually, the milkman is a great example of all of the things Chelsea is advocating for in this video: ethical convenience.
@@midorisour2844 Can confirm. My father was a milkman in the '80s. Every milkman had the same route, and they knew what people would need. It was also a pretty laid-back job, and he'd have coffee breaks at people's houses. Neighbors would meet almost daily when the milkman came. So it was very much a community thing.
I'm a big fan of TFD but I don't know about this video, and so I'm going to write a big wall of text...
As democratic socialists, I think you all understand that individual consumer habits cannot and do not change the behavior of corporations. That's why things like labor rights and anti-trust laws exist, because the owning class will always have a financial incentive to exploit the working class and behave it ways that minimize overhead and maximize profit. That's not saying that boycotts and stuff like that don't work, but saying people should stop using Doordash if possible is not a boycott. The treatment of gig workers is a result of 1) legislative incompetence, and 2) massive lobbying efforts by corporations to be allowed to call their employees contractors to avoid paying any kind of benefits, or even paying them a minimum wage.
A few years ago I decided to never use Amazon next day shipping again because of the issues that your guest mentioned. Using next day shipping made me feel bad, and not using it made me feel a little better, like I was less complicit in the problem. But me not using same day shipping has literally no tangible effect on any amazon worker ever. Market share was not affected by me limiting myself to one order a month. Conversely, I don't have a car and live in an area without reliable public transit, so when I can't get a ride to the store, I use Instacart. I use the app about once a month, and I feel I have a pretty good reason when I do. But that doesn't mean that Instacart is going to treat the employee getting my groceries better.
When it comes to labor rights and economic policy, I think it can be dangerous to moralize the use of certain goods or services, because then it becomes very easy to just say we should eliminate those services altogether even when they do a lot of good for people, and provide a lot of jobs. Most people I know that work for gig apps are either trying to make some extra money on the side (adding an additional stream of income, something this channel recommends), or they literally can't find another job. Workers aren't being exploited because Gen Z and millennials have become uniquely selfish and lazy, it's because these apps employ vulnerable people who have no other options.
Hear hear! Excellent point. It's not enough to vote for with your dollar, you have to vote with your effing vote. Americans (and the rest of the globe) are going to have a rude awakening come January. Canada is bracing for a recession, I recommend the rest of you do the same. Yes, things are rough now. They're about to get so much worse, including cost of living and workers protections. I mean, ahem, all hail our corporate overlords.
If anyone isn't sure what I'm referring to, do yourself a favour and actually look up what tariffs are, and then maybe google how 2025 tariffs will affect your country. Even our conservative premiers, who have their tongues waaaaay up a certain incoming president's butthole, are freaking out.
May we all take the next 4 years as a big f'n lesson on corporate interference in government, and how even once semi-socialist countries like Canada are barreling towards a "free market" economy that will nickel and dime us to death and not have the decency to pay us a decent wage or benefits while we bleed out.
good wall of text 👍
TLDR: it’s not just about who you choose NOT to support through your purchases, it’s also how your purchases can have a positive influence at a local level.
I agree that your purchasing decisions are unlikely to have an effect on the big company you are trying to avoid. But purchasing decisions are not just about having a negative effect they also have a positive one. For example, I am lucky to have many bric-a-brac shops on my local high street which sells many of the things people would order from Amazon for convenience (and for the same price if you account for delivery/subscriptions). Those shops are a dying breed because of the move towards e-commerce even though they provide a very tangible service to their communities. The trend over all is less middle class-owned small shops which provide people with financial autonomy and consolidation of retail where one corporation is taking a bigger cut and work is more precarious for all the gig workers working for them. We need antitrust too, but this does have a positive effect at the local level.
Best and easiest thing I did was start writing down any discretionary spend in my phone notes section. Everything. That way I can keep track of how much I am spending and modify.
same!
Great work Chelsea. I delivered for Uber before. The company and customers treat us like crap. I never use delivery apps because if customers knew what really goes on during the delivery they wouldn't eat the food...
I used to do food delivery too. It was difficult work for little pay. And the worst is when customers bait you with tips and then withdraw them after you deliver their food....I will never understand people that do that
@@MsKateC2Kthese ppl are so darn cheap... not pll u want to no anyway
My biggest level up for managing my life like an adult has been a task management system (like Asana, Monday, or Todoist). Now, I proactively tackle recurring tasks, and can also make reminders for one-of tasks to do them at some specific time. It has helped me take up so much more mental load off of my wife and place it onto me.
America are filthy nation
Not using delivery apps during bad weather for morality reasons is a weird argument. If nobody orders stuff, drivers can't work - no demand = no pay. Drivers are willing to go out on the roads regardless because they NEED money, and they aren't afforded paid time off. It's like saying unpaid factory work is morally wrong because of occupational hazard, when the actual issue is insufficient compensation + benefits. On the flip side, firefighters are in incredibly dangerous work but are compensated well - it's about how society/systems value your labour.
Regardless of all of this, consumers (myself included) don't understand the true cost of products and goods. Cheap stuff is not supposed to be THIS cheap.... the cost is being paid by someone else somewhere (suppressed wages, poor working conditions, outsourcing, etc).
we used doordash a lot during covid but almost never now that it’s like $100 per order. now we just use the app to organize our order and then call the restaurant, order directly from them and go pick it up because it’s way cheaper lol
We have these same delivery services here in Europe, but nobody would expect the courier to leave your food "on dry ice" or you not being home. They call you and you have to confirm you're home. Nobody would even dream of ordering and not being home to pick it up? Weird.
I loved the video Chelsea. Something else I keep thinking about when it comes to convenience is I feel like a lot of service apps on our phones remove our own ownership of our lives. For example, I know a lot of people who don't grocery shop for themselves and spend little to no time browsing new products at the grocery store or have no idea how their local grocery store is organized. And I think that is simply jarring because it completely erases our awareness of our own surroundings. Similarly living in a city I've interacted with a few young adults who do not drive and kind of take Ubers everywhere and sort of don't really know the general directions of the city like which way is North? Which way is south? Which highway goes east? Which Highway goes west? Which I think is so concerning just from a safety perspective but also because it just erases our perception of our place in the world (if that makes sense...). That lack of awareness is what think about when i saw the title. Really enjoyed the video essay! Cant wait for the next one!
The gps thing is me honestly. I’ve lived in my current city for 2 years and still have no clue how to get around without my maps app (aside from a few close by things) I’ve been trying to actively remember different freeways and their directions because if anything happened or I lost my phone somewhere I’d be stuck 😟
Nah, that makes sense. The more your phone magically provides for you, the less connected you are to the Real. The less connection you have to the world outside of your house.
Even when phones weren't a thing, people still used maps and compasses lol. Most people dont know their sense of direction. Its a legit skill, that you thankfully have
What I hate about online shopping is you can physicality get more than I can locally. I go to brick and mortar and cannot find what I'm looking for but amazon has something much closer. You have to make the ethical call that you will get something less desirable to avoid the mega company.
That's what I've noticed most of the time too. I live in a large city too but multiple times I spent hours looking for things that I ended up having to get online anyway.
I'm so confused. You promoted convenience-app deleting app( EHICH IS A FEATURE ON EVERY PHONE)- then immediately mention how we fall for said convenience. That contradiction disrupted my listening abruptly.
Glad I wasn't the only one who caught this
I mean, are you outsourcing your inconvenience to someone else at a significant cost to them? I don't think anyone is against apps at large?
'convenience culture is killing us
here is an ad for convenience therapy'
...i know sponsorships are just a thing you have do deal with, but damn that whiplash x.x
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I let my prime membership lapse because I didn’t use it every month, and I figured i could always use a family member’s account if i needed something that I couldn’t get from a local place. I do use grocery pick up a lot, single mom of three kids and a teacher its a life saver.
I would be interested if ride sharing like uber and Lyft has reduced people driving while drunk. I know if my wife and I are going out and we are planning on drinking we will we take an uber instead of driving.
Amazon prime 2 day delivery or next day delivery rarely gets here on time.
I remember the first moment I arrived in the US to study, from Latin America. I really felt it was a country made for babies. Everything was so easy and convenient, I couldn't believe it.
Thats what I think about SUVs-- you don't even have to use your leg muscles to get in and out of the car.
I haven't ordered food delivery since January 2024. I enjoy doing freezer meal prepping which means each week, I don't have to stress over what to eat that week. Instead, I can shop from my freezer and avoid having that urge to run out and grab take-out or do delivery. I have taken the stress away from deciding as I technically plan far ahead every time I fill my freezer with a new batch of cooked meals.
I get my midday meals delivered by Meals-on-Wheels, but I go out and shop local for everything I can... I don't use apps and am on snap benefits so any small store taking the snap ebt card near my apartment is likely to get my business... Mind you I am 63 and use a walker with a doctor's admonition to walk more. Streetcars and Bss drivers are my friends in this endevor I call life.
I wonder if there's ever going to come a time when it will be normal for average sized apartments (not microlofts,) to not have a range anymore and only have a microwave because average people won't be expected to know how to cook from scratch or want to do it, unless they went to culinary school or worked in a restaurant. We live in a time where you could go years without using an oven or a stove if you wanted to. Of course, it's way more expensive and less healthy, but I think that's going to change in the coming decades, to the point where having a kitchen with a range is going to be like having a sewing machine. Think about it, years ago lots of people used to sew their own clothes because they needed to or because it was cheaper. But now stores are full of cheap clothes and making your own is just an optional hobby.
The food tastes better when you make it!
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Yeah, I second that. I love to cook and bake and I learned how to make cinnamon buns. They take a lot of effort "from scratch" but they are worth it. I still am grateful for the "convenience" of a hand mixer to help me mix the dough. We're all working with some level of convenience.
A lot of people in history didn't have a oven in cities because it is was easier to bake bread in one oven at the bakers, there has been takeout since ancient times. It not just a modern thing
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That's a good point. There were also local markets and on the daily people would pick up food "conveniently" located in one place.
While super misguided, I feel like this is one reason why baby boomers are so enamored with the Trump “Make America Great Again” slogan. Some may be racists, yes. But I know my boomer parents bemoan the loss of community and the coldness of society and growing isolation. The older they are getting, the more convenience culture and hyper consumerism are growing. In many ways, my parents don’t even feel like they are a part of this world anymore. I’m an elder millennial and I think we are such a unique demographic because we grew up as kids with no internet but the mass explosion of the internet as adults. It really is kind of jarring remembering childhood vs now in terms of convenience and community. IMO, throw away culture had leached from hyper consumerism/convenience products to now personal and community relationships where people are just less dependable and way more flaky
Funny how I'm a millennial but also don't feel part of the world. It's not just your parents, everything is just alienating now
I agree that the exploitation of these workers is a big problem but that's systemic, that's not the fault of the consumers. EVERYBODY is overworked and underpaid now, and using these conveniences makes life easier and more manageable. I don't think it's fair to blame people for choosing to make their difficult lives easier. The companies are the problem.
I really dont see an issue with this. I couldnt be a single soccer mom with 2 kids and a full time job without all these things at my convenience. its either convenience or no home cooked meals.
Uber eats and grubhub are so expensive. No way I’m paying those prices to have food at my front door.
The convenience of apps and gig work is killing us, I think. Obviously it’s great for people with disabilities or limited time. But I also think the “ugh I just don’t want to X right now” mindset is really harmful for us all, as described in the video.
Yeah, going to buy groceries is going to suck a little more than staying at home, but all you’re doing is offloading that task to someone else who may or may not have a choice to do it. The gig economy is coming for all of us if we don’t actively choose to not engage with it. Take a minute to ask yourself if your job *really* couldn’t be done by someone paid by the project - it almost certainly can. The gig economy will come for you, too
You realise that people with limited time is literally anyone with a full time job?
"Yeah, going to buy groceries is going to suck a little more than staying at home, but all you’re doing is offloading that task to someone else who may or may not have a choice to do it."
Same with production, growing food, transportation, etc. like that's literally how jobs work.
@ yeah, I do get that. As a person who buys her own damn groceries and also works 50-60 hours a week, I do get it.
Your position that “but it’s hard” is exactly what I’m talking about. We all got our own groceries 5 years ago. And look I’m no Luddite, the world progresses, but I think it’s important that we don’t passively absorb the *way* it progresses because…. we’re tired after work?
No, it's not killing us. Corporations who don't treat their employees ethically, so that they can greedily put more millions in their pockets, is what is killing Americans. In more ways than I can possibly list here. If gig workers were treated well, you're only excuse would be "well, we just SHOULD do it the old way".
So the gig workers will make less money… how does that help them?
@@shee3073 the goal is to not proliferate the gig economy
I'm really sick and tired of getting called "entitled" or an "adult child" by some bougie writers who've never lifted a finger in their life while trying to work blue collar jobs.
If you're not acting entitled or like an adult child, then they aren't talking about you
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What a strange, tone deaf video. We outsource a lot because everyone works fulltime jobs. We don’t have a stay-at-home-partner to do the things we otherwise wouldn’t outsource.
My fiance and I are opposites. I almost never want to do delivery because of the added cost, I'd rather go in, pick it up, and stretch my legs a bit. He would rather have the comfort and not have to worry about crowds or parking.
On the other hand, I am inclined to order delivery in bad weather. Fortunately, my fiance always points out the callousness of that choice and we make something from home instead. It's never intentional, I just have the practical thought that if they're open, they'll deliver. I'm glad he reminds me, though. I do want people to be safe, I just don't always think of it. When you mentioned it here, I had the same punch in the gut that I get when he points it out.
I was trying to understand what you were leading up to but I just couldn't see it myself.
Another benefit to community: compassion. After I started working in retail while in college my mom told me that she started shopping more tidily to make less work for the employees. We had to stay after closing until the store was back to normal. I had a friend who worked at the movie theater, I always cleaned up after myself (10 minutes to clean the whole theater!)-- and another who worked in a pharmacy, I'm patient and ask for advice to fix issues. My dad was in construction, I slow down in construction zones.
I think I'm generally a nice person, and these are considered basics for most people, but the care with which you do them changes. You're not just making sure that you leave no trace (shyness/invisibility) or get things over with faster and not rocking the boat, you're doing them with someone in mind, even if it's not the same person that will benefit. You're thinking about their experience, too. That perspective shift changes your attitude and, for me, brings a sense of peace as well.
I’d like to ad a different perspective. My partner and I both work fulltime and we have two school aged kids. Making use of online grocery shopping, meal delivery once a week, clothes/errand shopping online, etc, is a necesity to sustain this model. If these services are not in place you run the risk of pushing back women into the home at the expense of their career and financial independence. I see these services as facilitating emancipation of women. However this should not come at the expense of workers, fair waged are key and I support that whole heartitly.
I don’t do much of this because I live out in the country where I’m only a 10 minute drive away from the main city area and they still won’t deliver pizza here 😹 Much of this type service isn’t available, or was not until very recently but I’m not up for the extra cost.
I feel like companies give people an option to pay just a little more so that the rest of their customers dont become my hassle.
Ill tip well to get my groceries delivered because i cannot stand how rude and dumb most customers are. I cant stand how much they love wasting the time of others by being dramatic and holding checkout lines hostage.
I prefer capsule over walgreens. It keeps me a more peaceful person to not wait an hour in line for my meds, because walgreens refuses to staff properly and each customer seems to require 20 minutes each of complaining and trying to extract free therapy from a very overworked tech.
I blame the companies for making their other customers unbearable to deal with.
I think it's by design in more ways than just customers. Haven't you noticed that when you go shopping in person they almost never have the exact size or type of product you were looking for? My husband often will try to get things in person and then decide to just buy it online because the store didn't seem to have anything in stock and the staff didn't even know enough to answer his questions. The best was one time when we asked a staff member how much something was and they just said, "I don't know," and walked away. The experience of shopping in person generally sucks!
Yeah, and I even heard smth like “sorry, sizes above xl only available online”. Since when has it become normal?
Convenience shopping hates my high return rate! I hate that clothing sellers can't do "short torso" plus "large hip"! This pear hates the system
I do love a TFD video that makes me feel like I’ve got my shit together. I only order food delivery when I’m wasted, and I always wait outside and meet the delivery worker on the road side so they can scoot off as fast as they can. I call this ‘behavioural tipping’ and it’s how, perhaps wrongly, rationalise and justify not tipping with cash. I’m also Australia and we don’t tip here. We use to be able to get away with it coz hospo wages are so good here, but the apps have changed everything.
Sorry, Hospo wages used* to be good. All our wages used to be good, but the post pandemic inflation and 30 years of neoliberal shitfkery has taken its toll.
Ooooh, catching a live! Appreciate you and everything you do!
I commented on a Facebook post I would not order delivery if I would not drive due to weather.
However I did get a lot of responses from people who (1) were counting on the money from that shift - so no orders is a day without income, and (2) they usually made the most money in bad weather so looked forward to it because at least in some neighborhoods itnresulted in giant tips.
So I waffle on that. Like if you order a $15 pizza and tip 100% and if yiou asked the driver "should I?" And they say "yes please, the weather is like this 10 days a year, I can't not work those days."
And putting that money into a Fidelity Account instead for retirement, which is what I should do with it, is not going to benefit anyone without a sizeable stock portfolio. I guess it will benefit boomers with big stock portfolios trying to retire who need someone to buy their stocks and bonds.
Similar concern:
My drycleaners has operated for 50-100 years. But now that dress shirts are $5+ each to launder, I might do my own. That's money I am taking away from a local non chain business. Which again I want to give to a huge financial institution to use to make more. Since putting my money in the stick market disproportionately benefits the 0.1% by bumping overall stock values).
So Americans are responsible adults if they drive their gas-guzzling SUVs to the grocery store where the bounty of the world is gathered for their consumption: fruit flown in from Chile, food canned in Mexico, cheap plastic gadgets from China, all picked, preserved, and manufactured in near slave-labor conditions. But if you pay an extra $10 to have that same shit delivered to your door by someone driving a more efficient vehicle with a planned route minimizing gas consumption, you're an adult toddler.
You may get your wish on this one, like Brexiters who wanted the UK to be more self-sufficient. A year later they were sharing tips on which kinds of moldy food were still safe to eat. Fewer and fewer of us will be able to afford the extra $10, we'll do our own shopping again inefficiently in our giant cars; traffic gets worse, gig workers stop making money, so even fewer people can afford conveniences, so more of us do our own errands, eliminating more jobs... sounds like a recession, and those always make the lives of vulnerable people better! Good job, very helpful.
ʟᴇs'ᴛ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀ ᴄᴏɴᴠᴇʀsᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ɢᴏᴛ sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ sᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟ ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜ 🤍🤍sᴇɴᴅ🤍🤍ᴍᴇ🤍🤍ᴀ🤍🤍ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ🤍🤍ᴛᴇxᴛ🤍±𝟣𝟦𝟢𝟪𝟫𝟢𝟧𝟩𝟨𝟧𝟥🔝
Yes! I don't understand how people could afford all these "conviniences." When I was in my 20s, I could barely afford my rent and this was in pre-internet and pre-cell phone days! I don't see how these young people are affording all these deliveries! My neighb or is 28 and always has Doordash or Postmates and still complains about money and how as a Boomer, I must have had it so easy! Yes, so easy that I can't even look at Top Ramen w/o turning green, I ate so much of it!
Part of the problem is that the selling point is that we can't afford to buy properties so better be living the lavish life.
Technically Top Ramen is a "convenience" food.
You can now pay for Domino's in 4 easy payments! 🤢
They dont buy groceries, they just order takeout. Thats how they afford it. Groceries are expensive
I lean towards capitalism (with some socialist elements), but hear me out. I would not blame the customer in this case. It's hard to always think about who abuses workers, etc etc when you work two jobs and all your friends use Amazon. I believe blitzscaling and selling products and services at lower than their production costs should be considered dumping and anti-competitive. It should be illegal to demolish your competition by using investor money to survive while selling at a loss on purpose. If companies would be fined per product sold like that they would stop and then your mom&pop shop would be competitive again.
Some of these conveniences are really good for people with disabilities. Making them affordable for people that really do need things delivered for them. It’s complicated.
Or people who work fulltime jobs. Idk about you all, but working fulltime, cooking and keeping the house clean is for me impossible. I was in a constant state of burnout before I started outsourcing some parts of my weekly tasks.
@@Ashina12345 I empathize as I also work full time and have an all-around busy schedule, but we shouldn't be demanding for services that ultimately cannot be this cheap without an exploitative business model to continue existing. Rather we should be advocating for the root cause to change and force companies to implement for example a four day workweek (as a start), which would provide people with full time jobs with more free time to take care of their own shit and not feel like it's eating up any free time they have left after working, often overtime.
The same is true for people with disabilities: Why are they not getting help in a different form? Why are they getting so little benefits that they cannot afford "convenience" at its real price (for them a necessity really) without offloading the cost to gig workers? It's capitalism's divide and conquer strategy working when really the working class and people with disabilites are on the same side and that is not the side of capital.
Looking forward to your takes Chelsea, I have so many thoughts!
I always thought it was strange that there would be so many orders in the lobby of my building on rainy or snowy days. I don't order uber eats or any of those, I feel weird having someone else deliver food I could simply go out myself and get or cook at home
I can’t wait to hear about this! As a millennial, I’m honestly tired of other millennials not submitting to being adults and complaining all the time instead. I see millennials writing articles about not being ready to organize family gatherings, or bring a dish to an occasion, or to help babysit younger family members. They want to eternally receive and never take up the mantle of being the new leaders. It’s ridiculous at this point. Grow up
Are you sure these people don't good reasons to not want to see their families?
This might just be an unfortunate side effect of whatever internet bubbles you're in and what the algos are feeding you? And that's meant with zero judgment - one cannot exist on the internet anymore without that happening. Because while I'll encounter "woof being an adult is hard" confessional/"look I'm so so relatable" overshares, this is definitely not the vibe overall. Extending from "eked out an education, including some amount of college" MAGA family to "multiple advanced degrees/lawyer/doctor" friends (I don't _want_ to frame this as a direct contrast - all these folks are coastal and privileged in many respects - but anecdotally, it has proven to be a pretty strong contrast 🤷🏼♀️ But all on top of it with respect to being able to handle sh** as basic as you cite)
Edit: also a millennial here, and referencing a decent, albeit anecdotal, sample size of other millennials
That reminds me of the large number of adults that no longer want to get married or have children. If they can't even handle bringing a meal to a potluck, that is pretty sad.
@@believestthouthis7 Do you people should have children?
@@greenamber9827
I believe that God made us all with free will to make our own choices. It seems like many people today do not want to get married or have children. Those things carry a lot of responsibility and possible pain, so many people seem to want to avoid them. I think that we can all agree that getting married and having children are very "adult" things to do.
Be aware of how the world works against intentionality and community. Writing that down thank you very much!!
all i can think of is that, even with so many people ordering delivery... i still can't find anywhere to park!
I feel like a lot of these things started as communal ideas, like car sharing or ask a friend/neighbour to bring you something when you know where they are out or casual offering help with tasks for a small fee or in exchange for something and then putting a price tag on it.
Which is very sad.
Really curious about this one :)
I feel like the chick with the farm was practically in tears and just sounded so whiny. I don't know why but I found it hard to care. Maybe I'm a monster.
I got the vibe she has anxiety about public speaking and knew she'd be in this video.
weird take -- everyone is working now, so we have to outsource everything. all in the name of taxes and capitalism.
Very much an example of class difference
5 minutes in and three ads already. Incredibly distracting.
Is this about the plush hoodies that were the rage last winter?
Convenien culture sounds a lot tamer vs "mama bird-ing" 😂 which is what it all feels like. Some stranger chewing your food for you and spitting int into your mouth.
how do we get rid of these parasitic techno fascists
Lina Khan for president
I ask myself that all the time. I'm 67 & just SMDH over the mass psychosis. I've heard of it in history (Witch trials, Crusades, etc) but we're living it now. Dark times ahead. Humans have been devolving instead of evolving into a better species
This channel has something to do with it. Look at the title of the previous video. Also, she kind of perpetuates some myths about money, prices and quality. More money doesn't mean better quality.
@bobfg3130 ??? Look at the title? So you didn't watch the video and you're making assumptions?
Respectfully, your generation and predecessors screwed us, please hush.
@@danirayyeYou know what trait / skill (because it also can be learned) millennials and those that have followed them lack? Taking responsibility for themselves - taking stock / self-awareness.
@@Nonameforyoudangit What? That statment right there is a lack of responsibility and self awareness
I refuse to pay for Amazon Prime or expedited delivery but usually get free shipping and will wait for it to arrive. On occasion something I order will be delivered on Sunday. There is nothing that i need and have ordered on-line has to employ someone on Sunday to deliver it to me.
i will fully accept accusations of both entitlement and privilege, of course. how could i not as a white guy living in the global north?
even as someone with little money, i live in a magical kingdom with trivial access to electricity, information, clean water and groceries. meat here is often cheaper per kilogram than vegetables. petroleum is cheaper per liter than bottled water or coffee
all of this wealth based on rapacious theft from the global south and robbing aboriginal peoples of their futures
and some of us dare complain about it. whine about the inflation or whatever. it's gross
i won't accept, though, an accusation that this entitlement and privilege belongs to my generation. it is western entitlement and privilege, period; that fact it has changed shape and has a new vibe hasn't fundamentally changed anything. the unsustainable manufacturing fantasy kingdom was every bit as entitled and privileged - the fact it involved factory work and salaries rather than gig work and apps did not make it any more honorable or equitable
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still never did anything like that 🤷🏻♂️
Maybe a dozen years ago, I got into a little spat with UPS over a delivery. It was back when Amazon did almost all of their shipping through UPS. So I tallied up the number of Amazon orders I’d placed in the previous six months and discovered it was … 102. I was shocked. It immediately resolved the issued with UPS in my favor. But I think if I checked the last six months, I’d find soooo many more. I just order whatever I want, whenever I feel like it, usually around-the-clock. Because I’m a 58 year-old toddler with no supervision. 😮
Ordering, using fast deliveries and getting things to your door is definitely almost worldwide thing, but US really is in it’s own league, this sounds so foreign to me.
Honestly I usually get my groceries delivered to my house but today I went to the store at 5pm and it was hell. So crowded, so many people everywhere blocking the aisles, chatting in the middle of the aisle, walking super slow. I literally couldn’t stand it, it gave me anxiety. I’m sticking to delivery service and I’m grateful for it.
people who order food delivery when the weather is bad really have no shame.
I am NOT "suddenly" an adult toddler. Ive been an adult toddler since I turned 18. 😞
ʟᴇs'ᴛ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀ ᴄᴏɴᴠᴇʀsᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ɢᴏᴛ sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ sᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟ ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜ 🤍🤍sᴇɴᴅ🤍🤍ᴍᴇ🤍🤍ᴀ🤍🤍ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ🤍🤍ᴛᴇxᴛ🤍±𝟣𝟦𝟢𝟪𝟫𝟢𝟧𝟩𝟨𝟧𝟥🔝
What I don't understand is why can't local stores sell items cheaper than Amazon? Why won't restaurants sell food cheaper to you if you purchase from them directly (they won't even take orders on their websites)? Why won't uber drivers give us their business cards while offering us lower rates if we pay them directly with cash? Consumers want good products with good prices. Convenience is secondary, we're surely ok waiting a week if that means the item will be 30% cheaper. I frequently go to my local dollar store so I can purchase cheap items without the shipping expenses that are baked on the price of most amazon items (no free lunch there, free shipping is frequently a lie that is less obvious on pricier items but try purchasing things under 7 or 8 dollars). Sometimes that's not possible and I have to lose to Amazon or wait a month to get something directly from China.
Wealth wise I have been frugal for many years. Sometimes more than I care to admit. Without enough income, and without gambling in the stock market (and succeeding) I wasn't able to purchase even one of the cheapest inhabitable (before extensive repairs) houses in a 100 Km radius from where I live (Rotterdam, Netherlands). It's important that we shame people less for their consumer habits (within reason, there's excess, of course) but focus on the fact negative real interest rates drain our funds before we can save enough to do anything with that money (not everybody has access to credit, specially if you don't have a proper / guaranteed stable income like a salary).
That also motivates people to burn their resources quickly, as it's going to be worth less year after year. Can't prepay for non discretionary expenses to lock in present prices either. I tried to pay rent and utilities in advance, no space to negotiate. We can buy food in advance, but only so much. I notice huge savings from items I purchased years ago that I am still using (within their expiration). Some cost me half of what they're being sold for right now and I can still use them for the next couple of years. I wish we could prepay for energy, health insurance, fuel etc. I know we can invest on futures, but that doesn't match the price we, as consumers, pay for things. Those go up by 10% but grocery stores sell the same items for twice the price because they're rising margins or because governments rise taxes or because wages went up. Sorry, I ended up writing too long of a comment. 🤦🏻♂
For the last 20 years, I have had groceries delivered. I stopped a few weeks ago. Even here in Norway where there are so many employees protection rules, the delivery services have been able to abuse it over and over again.
They made so much money with covid and their excuse is that they are struggling for money.
I can get my own groceries once a week.
I don’t do Amazon shopping that much but somehow, I always knew that overwhelming the system because I want something early is not the serve we think it is.
The thought of Jeff Bezos putting his head in a bowling ball buffer each morning just makes me smile. Good video!
I think most adults in USA are toddlers but not for convenience apps, more for the general cultural self absorbed attitude. (Myself included). However, I moved to small town France and had a child which both have made me see everything very differently .
I dont understand why cant taylor have a smaller plane anyways why is there such big jets even available for anyone to buy
This is a weird viewpoint. Who is to judge who deserves what kind of convenience? You? Honestly, of someone wants to provide it and you have the money to buy it, I don’t see the harm. (All within the realms of the law).
Someone deciding who’s entitled to what, that’s communism.
ʟᴇs'ᴛ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀ ᴄᴏɴᴠᴇʀsᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ɢᴏᴛ sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ sᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟ ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜ 🤍🤍sᴇɴᴅ🤍🤍ᴍᴇ🤍🤍ᴀ🤍🤍ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ🤍🤍ᴛᴇxᴛ🤍±𝟣𝟦𝟢𝟪𝟫𝟢𝟧𝟩𝟨𝟧𝟥🔝
oh lol first seconds I thought were a commercial and was desperately trying to skip it cant explain the absolute dread I felt
ʟᴇs'ᴛ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀ ᴄᴏɴᴠᴇʀsᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ɢᴏᴛ sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ sᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟ ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜ 🤍🤍sᴇɴᴅ🤍🤍ᴍᴇ🤍🤍ᴀ🤍🤍ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ🤍🤍ᴛᴇxᴛ🤍±𝟣𝟦𝟢𝟪𝟫𝟢𝟧𝟩𝟨𝟧𝟥🔝
That business owner is amazing
Dear, you do not need deep clevage every single video....
ʟᴇs'ᴛ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀ ᴄᴏɴᴠᴇʀsᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ɢᴏᴛ sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ sᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟ ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜ 🤍🤍sᴇɴᴅ🤍🤍ᴍᴇ🤍🤍ᴀ🤍🤍ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ🤍🤍ᴛᴇxᴛ🤍±𝟣𝟦𝟢𝟪𝟫𝟢𝟧𝟩𝟨𝟧𝟥🔝
“We are Jeff Bezos’s baby, unfortunately, and he has given us too many lollipops.” 😂🥲😅 So sad, so true.
Ordering, using fast deliveries and getting things to your door is definitely almost worldwide thing, but US really is in it’s own league, this sounds so foreign to me.