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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Replying to @Pinboard
Funny I always thought of airline lounges as being akin to the perks given to party members in (fraudulently) socialist states
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Those were the real socialist states. You can't call the practical examples a fraud just because they demonstrated that the concept can't be realized in practice. Anyway, the equivalent of what you're talking about is the first-class airline lounge!
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I mean fair, but also didn't you just use the "it's not real capitalism" argument about lounge vs food court?
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I think that was someone else in that thread.
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