Respites and Little Luxuries

"Dynamic pricing," precarity, social credit, and efficiency as ideology

I’d been working on a piece for awhile, when the brouhaha over the Wendy’s dynamic pricing hit. So I used that to wrap up the piece, which ran in Discourse Magazine:

This isn’t about dynamic pricing. That’s just one example of what feels like a trend. No more snow days. No more certainty in fast food prices. General inflation. “Extra-economy” airplane se…