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Pod Subsidies and Supermodernism

Drew Austin
Jun 11, 2021
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Kevin Roose published a piece in the New York Times this week about the waning of what he calls the “millennial lifestyle subsidy,” an arrangement that has enabled consumers to enjoy a cornucopia of app-enabled luxuries for significantly less than their true cost. Funded by venture capital and obsessed with growth, companies like Uber, MoviePass, and a …

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