The clandestine purpose of airport lounges is to demonstrate the evils of socialism. The hoarding, pilfering, waste, chronic shortages, turf wars, queuing, requirement to prove class bona fides, and pervasive sense of aggrieved entitlement are the madeleine to my Proust.
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This is a weird statement to make about an extremely capitalist institution
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An extremely capitalist institution is one where you pay competing vendors for goods and services—the food court. The airline lounge is socialist.
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It always astounds me the degree to which educated people misunderstand "democratic ownership of the workplace" into "no market, and there is only one choice"
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The serious argument is that the concept of worker ownership, when applied to broad sectors of the economy, is unstable and devolves into state monopoly.
6:06 AM - 25 Dec 2019
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