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Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by flir »

alexfoo wrote: post #177
yunohn wrote: post #51

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I’m not familiar with the UK, but is the tax on alcohol at pubs higher than at a store? My general understanding was that people have just shopped visiting pubs for other reasons - like diluted drinks, crappy food, loud music, etc.

People stop visiting crappy pubs if they have diluted drinks (quite rare, UK is very strict about being served exact alcohol measures, there is very little free pouring in the UK and many people would spot other drinks being diluted), crappy food (sadly all too common), loud music (age related), etc. But not many pubs are crappy in these respects. The main reasons why fewer people are visiting average or good pubs ar…

There's competition, too. Even if everything else remained the same, you'd expect more entertainment options to result in fewer pub visits.

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Post by s1mplicissimus »

cyberpunk wrote: post #59
stonegray wrote: post #44

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Stealing this for error logging levels

The bristol stool scale also works well. Although that’s better for sprint planning maybe..

Thanks for pointing out the stool scale. I went from "hahaha I'm sure this some kind of 'how shitty stuff is'" to "let me see how it works" to "oh, it's actually a useful medical chart" lol

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Post by antonymoose »

hdgvhicv wrote: post #234
antonymoose wrote: post #143

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I would love to know why it is unrealized gains is such a popular property tax strategy.

I’d love to know why people are happy with others making a fortune not through hard work, but through buying land and letting others hard work increase its value.

In the case of these pubs it sounds like they’re being priced out of the area through no fault of their own while trying to run an honest business so I don’t quite follow your logic here…

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Post by s1mplicissimus »

j45 wrote: post #200
antonymoose wrote: post #141

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Funny enough I worked with an old timer back in Charleston, SC which historically had no regulated last call. During his drinking years they passed a law requiring an 0200 closing time which, as he put it, was a terrible idea because it put all the drunks out on the street at the same time causing joint chaos. In his view having no official close meant folks naturally filtered out over time as they were sated. Seems…

Stopping serving at one hour didn’t have to mean closing at the same time.

How do you imagine this playing out? People don't get the alcohol they want anymore -> no more orders -> No more business -> Not worth it for the owner

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Post by j45 »

alexfoo wrote: post #271
j45 wrote: post #199

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Appreciate the clarification. My awareness was around soccer games.

The UK is just weird about that. Decades of hooliganism (mostly a thing of the past thankfully) has meant that you can't be in possession of alcohol within view of the pitch in the top 5 tiers in the UK. (And by the 5th tier you're looking at matches that have attendances anywhere down to 400 or so, although some clubs in the 5th tier still manage to attract 10000 fans to home games). This spills out into the local c…

No alcohol and physical segregation at the seats seems quite foreign compared to maybe just being able to handle one’s self around alcohol.

It’s one way to say hooliganism in the past I guess.

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Post by j45 »

s1mplicissimus wrote: post #304
j45 wrote: post #200

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Stopping serving at one hour didn’t have to mean closing at the same time.

How do you imagine this playing out? People don't get the alcohol they want anymore -> no more orders -> No more business -> Not worth it for the owner

Oh, nothing to imagine..

It’s already a reality in many places.

Last call at 2, people filter out by 3, instead of being pushed outside instantly.

Some sporting events don’t sell alcohol the last quarter, period, etc.

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Post by pjc50 »

econ wrote: post #178
ehnto wrote: post #163

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What does anyone gain from it really, except money in the bank for a handful of individuals, outsized property prices seem to be a hurdle for functional societies in basically every way. It doesn't benefit a town if rent is so expensive that their businesses shut down.

When young I use to work in construction. (With diplomas) The wages for 18 year olds in the Netherlands at the time were such that I got 340 euro per month for 40 hour weeks. It's a truly shit salary but you could also see it as a wonderful formula to build cheap houses. As my boss billed the customers 28 euro per hour for my work and those houses cost roughly 35000 to buy(!) and it took roughly 80 hours of work each…

This is more or less exactly Marx's argument about extracting the surplus from labour, and the alienation people feel when they cannot afford the products they themselves make.
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