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
This is a weird statement to make about an extremely capitalist institution
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Replying to @noamsml
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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Replying to @Pinboard
People prove their class bona fides through access to capital. Many capitalist markets (e.g. healthcare and utilities) produce monopolies with subpar service and class based tiering.
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Replying to @noamsml
I don't think you really understand the point I'm making about demonstrating class bona fides.
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Replying to @Pinboard
Ultimately, regardless of what the experience of an airline lounge is the system that created it is decidedly Capitalism
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Yeah, and everything is ultimately hydrogen
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