This is why I sell beer.
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This is why I sell beer.
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#3Well, I mean I've never been wealthy but I've run the range from upper middle class to dead broke and if I can extrapolate the data I would say that a predilection for free beer is probably universal regardless of income or social status. It's the common thread that binds the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
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#4By the way his blog is now really at http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/03/music-officially-begins-toda...
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#5Having just come back from SXSW, the (disappointing) hour spent chasing parties is more about a notion of who you should be socializing with than the free drinks.
Abandoning the night's most popular venues almost guarantees magic will happen.
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#6Well, I mean I've never been wealthy but I've run the range from upper middle class to dead broke and if I can extrapolate the data I would say that a predilection for free beer is probably universal regardless of income or social status. It's the common thread that binds the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
It just tastes better.
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#7Umm, so, shouldn't he be selling event tickets or hotel rooms instead?
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#8research shows that there is some psychological attachment to the concept of "free" that bypasses people's usual cost/benefit thinking. see this article [http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/04/free-but-at-what-price.php] for instance.
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#9Umm, so, shouldn't he be selling event tickets or hotel rooms instead?
The point is, he doesn't have to work with these people any more, since he is no longer a programmer.
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#10I love Austin, and spend three months out of the year there. But, I avoid it like the plague during SXSW, especially the tech portion. I spent part of the winter there, and will be arriving back in town in a couple of weeks, just in time for the SXSW people to be gone. SXSW brings nearly everything I don't like about Silicon Valley and Los Angeles and New York to a town that I love and is normally refreshingly free of those traits...and that makes me feel kinda ill.