Based on twelve months of fieldwork into Uber's conflict in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this article examines convenience's role in the emergence of what I call cynical economies: a method and logic of production expressly organized on the awareness of a distance the very rhetoric of convenience exacerbates. For the city's middle class, convenience defined a democratizing, empowering arena of private relations away from the hierarchies and exclusions proper to the private sphere. As Uber's ratings translated consumers' experiences into a political economy for the trade, drivers organized the production of the ride knowing that whatever exceeded the immediate intelligibility of the experience could not matter in that political economy. In the process, cynical economies delegitimize complex and inherently social categories like risk, responsibility, and liability, as well as the social sphere that frames them, without offering an alternative order in return.

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生产、消费者的便利和愤世嫉俗的经济：优步在布宜诺斯艾利斯的案例

基于对优步在阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯的冲突进行的 12 个月实地调查，本文考察了便利在我所谓的愤世嫉俗经济的出现中的作用：一种明确组织在距离意识上的生产方法和逻辑. 对于这座城市的中产阶级来说，便利定义了一个民主化、授权的私人关系领域，远离私人领域固有的等级制度和排斥。由于优步的评级将消费者的体验转化为交易的政治经济，司机组织了乘车的生产，他们知道任何超出体验的直接可理解性在政治经济中都无关紧要。在这个过程中，愤世嫉俗的经济体使复杂的和固有的社会类别合法化，如风险、