Convenience Trap
The Smile That Costs You MoreBy Chris A. Piazza | Antherra™
Length59m
About this audiobook
The smile on the screen is not for you. The tip prompt has a payroll it would like to outsource. The mural says community in a font that costs money. Somewhere in the last ten years, every counter in the country quietly became a courtroom, and the verdict is delivered in increments of twenty percent. Sixty minutes from here, the mask slips.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics, Technology
Length59 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 2, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Invocation
3CHAPTER ONE: The Doorway
4CHAPTER TWO: Tipflation Nation
5CHAPTER THREE: The Guilt Economy
Show all chaptersShow less
6CHAPTER FOUR: Nice Capitalism
7CHAPTER FIVE: Cash as Mutual Aid
8CHAPTER SIX: The Theater of Choice
9CHAPTER SEVEN: Defaulted Morality
10CHAPTER EIGHT: The Pass-Through Machine
11CHAPTER NINE: Everyday Coercion
12CHAPTER TEN: Scripts of Resistance
13CHAPTER ELEVEN: Maria
14CLOSING RITUAL: Stop Tipping the System
Heavenly KingdomChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h 26m$4.99
Circuit: ExhaleChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h 33m$4.99
Cultural TariffsChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h 14m$4.99
CatchmentChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h 24m$4.99
Nanny StateChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h 12m$4.99
The ViaChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h 20m$4.99
LoggedChris A. Piazza | Antherra™37m$4.99
DeaccessionChris A. Piazza | Antherra™48m$4.99
RemandChris A. Piazza | Antherra™37m$4.99
Color Me DrunkChris A. Piazza | Antherra™45m$4.99
StemsChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h 18m$4.99
15 Buried InventionsChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h$4.99
The Civilization That Could BeChris A. Piazza | Antherra™46m$4.99
Chain of CustodyChris A. Piazza | Antherra™42m$4.99
TitrationChris A. Piazza | Antherra™49m$4.99
CompactChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h 48m$4.99
Discount RateChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h 24m$4.99
The Long Vacancy, Volume IIIChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h 19m$4.99
The Long Vacancy, Volume IIChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h 6m$4.99
The Long Vacancy, Volume IChris A. Piazza | Antherra™1h 3m$4.99
Never Split the DifferenceChris Voss, Tahl Raz8h 7m4.4 (277.7K)$26 · $0.00
The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.Benjamin Graham17h 48m4.3 (191.5K)$40 · $0.00
The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsBen Horowitz7h 57m4.2 (134.3K)$26 · $0.00
Boundaries for LeadersHenry Cloud7h 36m4.3 (3.6K)$26 · $0.00
Basic EconomicsThomas Sowell18h 32m4.5 (29.3K)$28 · $0.00
The Ambuja StoryNarotam Sekhsaria13h 59m4.5 (830)$33 · $0.00
This Is Going to HurtAdam Kay5h 47m4.4 (444.7K)$24 · $0.00
Big TrustShadé Zahrai, Fayçal Sekkouah8h 36m4.6 (406)$26 · $0.00
The Intelligent Investor Third EditionBenjamin Graham, Jason Zweig20h4.4 (156.6K)$46 · $0.00
Bottle of LiesKatherine Eban14h 25m4.4 (12K)$33 · $0.00
The Antiracist Business BookTrudi Lebrón6h 10m4.6 (275)$17 · $0.00
The FormulaJoshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg10h 41m4.4 (6.9K)$29 · $0.00
Let Them LeadJohn U. Bacon7h 10m4.5 (1.4K)$24 · $0.00
Secrets of the Millionaire MindT. Harv Eker5h 11m4.4 (301.4K)$24 · $0.00
The Person You Mean to BeDolly Chugh9h 6m4.4 (7.2K)$29 · $0.00
BoundlessNick Kostov, Sean McLain9h 17m4.5 (1.1K)$29 · $0.00
Everyday DharmaSuneel Gupta5h 2m4.5 (761)$20 · $0.00
Let's Talk Mutual FundsMonika Halan7h 5m4.4 (2.4K)$16 · $0.00
The Law of Success in Sixteen LessonsNapoleon Hill2h 39m4.4 (17.2K)$2 · $0.00
Barbarians at the GateBryan Burrough, John Helyar3h 3m4.4 (52.7K)$18 · $0.00
Never Lost AgainBill Kilday10h 1m4.4 (805)$29 · $0.00
How the Internet HappenedBrian McCullough13h 28m4.3 (2.7K)$23 · $0.00
Collected Writings of Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla, Thomas Commerford Martin21h 50m4.3 (1.7K)$1 · $0.00
Just AspireAjai Chowdhry9h 13m4.4 (260)$29 · $0.00
The Little Book of AliensAdam Frank8h 20m4.3 (1.3K)$26 · $0.00
The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla (Annotated)Thomas Commerford Martin16h 59m4.3 (1.3K)$2 · $0.00
KargilV.P. Malik15h 18m4.3 (2K)$24 · $0.00
Experiments with Alternating CurrentsNikola Tesla9h 6m4.3 (874)$1 · $0.00
Fire on the HorizonTom Shroder, John Konrad8h 23m4.3 (858)$26 · $0.00
The Smell of Kerosene (Annotated)National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Donald L. Mallick, Peter W. Merlin11h 32m4.3 (523)$2 · $0.00
The Boy Who Harnessed the WindWilliam Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer10h 5m4.2 (78.9K)$29 · $0.00
Across the Airless WildsEarl Swift10h 8m4.3 (1.3K)$29 · $0.00
Console WarsBlake J. Harris20h 41m4.2 (13.7K)$46 · $0.00
Improvised Munitions HandbookU.S. Department of Defense4h 49m4.3 (1.6K)$1.99 · $0.00
Escaping GravityLori Garver10h 54m4.2 (2.2K)$20 · $0.00
Wireless WarsJonathan Pelson8h 2m4.3 (418)$20 · $0.00
Let There Be WaterSeth M. Siegel8h 36m4.2 (2.3K)$20 · $0.00
The PerfectionistsSimon Winchester11h 46m4.2 (9.9K)$29 · $0.00
Rethinking NarcissismDr. Craig Malkin6h 7m4.2 (3.4K)$24 · $0.00
Project Animal FarmSonia Faruqi11h 23m4.3 (563)$20 · $0.00
You may also like
"The Kingdom of God Is Within You" (Annotated)Leo Tolstoy12h 40m4.3 (13.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
Creating FreedomRaoul Martinez17h 34m4.3 (826)$23 · $0.00
The Constitution of KnowledgeJonathan Rauch12h 23m4.3 (2.4K)$23 · $0.00
"The Kingdom of God Is Within You"Leo graf Tolstoy15h 8m4.2 (6.7K)$2 · $0.00
They Don't Represent UsLawrence Lessig10h 32m4.2 (347)$29 · $0.00
PropagandaJacques Ellul15h 36m4.3 (4.7K)$23 · $0.00
Science, Liberty And PeaceAldous Leonard Huxley1h 57m4.0 (652)$2 · $0.00
Primetime PropagandaBen Shapiro14h 21m4.1 (1.7K)$8 · $0.00
The Likeability TrapAlicia Menendez6h 47m3.9 (1.9K)$24 · $0.00
Nationalism & LettersRabindranath Tagore3h 18m4.2 (10.9K)$2.30
The Soul of ManOscar Wilde2h4.1 (14.3K)$1 · $0.00
Free WorldJackson Michael50m5.0 (28) Only with Ultra
Conventional Lies of our CivilizationMax Simon Nordau12h3.5 (90)$2 · $0.00
#DoNotDisturbJedediah Bila7h 53m3.4 (283)$26 · $0.00
Between Thought and Expression Lies a LifetimeNoam Chomsky, James Kelman8h 13m3.6 (59)$20 · $0.00
A Very Convenient WarmingGregory Wrightstone4h 1m4.5 (32)$20
UndoctrinateBonnie Kerrigan Snyder7h 47m4.1 (85)$17
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in AmericaEllis Cose5h 39m3.8 (144)$24 · $0.00
Let-Go for WorkaholicsOSHO1h 26m4.0 (10)$6 · $0.00
An End to Upside Down LibertyMark Gober7h 37m4.5 (39)$17