I deleted Uber at the same time If I remember correctly, I deleted Lyft, too. I’ll admit I eventually reinstalled Lyft and have used it grudgingly and occasionally while traveling for work, especially in towns where taxis aren’t everywhere all the time. Sure, the company’s bad, the business model is bad, it’s contributing to the and the degradation of the environment. But on the other hand, it is convenient.

In my head, there’s a list of apps and services I’m trying to quit. (Yes, this is the kind of thing I’m allowing to occupy brain space.) I nixed Facebook years ago and have been very close to dumping Instagram a few times this year. I was close on Amazon before the pandemic, but they reeled me back in, at least until I can get to a hardware store more easily. I’m back to refusing to pay for cable, even though I pay the same for internet because I don’t really have a choice.

But I’m going to quit. I’m going to quit all of it and extricate myself from the system that’s eating itself and all of us alive. And even though it’ll still eat itself, at least I won’t be helping it along. Just kidding, that’s more or less impossible. Just one more way to make you feel bad and guilty about things that aren’t really yours to control.

But anyway, what about you? What company do you want to walk away from, even if you can’t quite bring yourself to do it? Does that Harbor Freight flier suck you in every time? Do you leer at the Mazda dealership every two years before going back to lease your 14th — and this time final — Camry? Are you still using the rideshare apps? You know you should quit!