the profession to become weed dealers instead. People quit their mixology classes; bars go underground, hard to find. Over a few years, those who still bartend have become a tougher, harder crowd. They come out of people with fewer options, or people who have less to lose. One-2x
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is a single mother looking for pay in a bad housing market. Another is a young man who is comfortable with breaking the law. Yet another struggles with mental illness and finds the underground bartending market to be more forgiving to his flexible schedule. 3x
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No longer do you see middle-class kids putting themselves through college, or a freelance writer making a bit of extra money on the side. And so you are arguing that bartending should be socially accepted and decriminalized. But then you hear-
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"Bartending is obviously bad and damaging. Bartenders are desperate, mentally ill, fucked up on drugs, or criminals. Nobody wants to do that job, you have to be fucked to want to do that. I can't believe you want to normalize bartending when you see the effect it has!"
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Like, you're not wrong that bartending has a tougher crowd, but you didn't stop to wonder why that is? How maybe the problem is actually the stigma and underground nature? How you'd get the same effect if you stigmatized other jobs, such as waiters or artists or sex workers?
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Okay yes, this is obviously about sex workers. I'm not saying there's no other factors that go into the discussion about sex work, but I'm sick of critics pointing out the "lowlife" nature of sex workers without wondering if maybe they caused that in the first place.
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it's kinda painful to see a didactic and obvious thread like this and still recognize its importance
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This religion must have been started by Bartholomew, for if your name isn't Bart you have nothing to fear from the Bartenders.
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I love the nihilistic undertone. Keep going. What are the politicians doing? And our protagonist, is she a bartender? Or maybe she's just walked into the wrong job interview. And why are the newspapers reporting all those missing pets? Something is off about this city...
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that's the point
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