Part of me has the knee jerk reaction of "yeah that totally happened"
But then I remember the lady that got really mad at me for giving her a senior discount because I thought she forgot to ask and had her wallet open with her id visible while she wrote a check so yeah...
If I've learned anything about client facing jobs, it's that people can get pissed about the most anodyne, routine shit. Some people just want to be mad.
Also to get upset about free shit or a discount is like, the most privileged shit I can possibly imagine.
Part of me has the knee jerk reaction of “yeah that totally happened”
Yeah, the reference to allergy and "power play" seems like hints that is a SJW panic bait, if the writer had also added a bit that she's vegan then I would be sure that it's 100% written by a chud.
bruh my mom milks that shit like crazy
'I'M SO OLD I'M DECAYING PLEASE DISCOUNT NOW'
My parents don't look nearly as old as they are, so they have to show ID for the senior discount when they buy booze. Life comes full circle.
I still get carded to see if I'm 18. Not often, but enough. I fix this by going to places regularly.
I went to buy my aunt a pack of smokes once and they tried to take my out-of-state ID as a fake. I'd been smoking for a decade at that point, but if I don't have facial hair I look like a college student.
I had a friend in college that worked for mcdonalds, at the time 2 4pc nuggets were cheaper than a 6pc. He said he got yelled at so many times for OFFERING to switch it out, not even going ahead and making the change.
The point isn't whether this happened or not, but that the story is 100% plausible
the free food felt like a power play, a way to feel as though he had authority over us
Imagine having your brain so rotted by capitalism you can't even comprehend the concept of hospitality, instead assuming that it's all somehow a cynical ploy to... uh, somehow feel power over the customers by being nice to them?
I've sometimes thought that one of the reasons for a lot of western leftists' rejection of the achievements of AES (beyond the simple reason of just racism) is a similar kind of :brainworms: - they've had their brains so broken by living under a dysfunctional capitalist government their entire lives that they can't even comprehend the idea of a government actually just doing good things. You couldn't possibly be building housing and providing people with education because, you know, you actually want to improve their lives - it's all has to be some kind of ploy, some attempt at manipulation, what else could it be! Reminds me of that idiotic tweet about how literacy programs were actually a tool of propaganda.
Tell me about it: "They pay universal chikd support with MY money to earn poor people's votes!!!!!!1!1!"
It always feels like "Buying Votes" is some kind of bad thing when libs talk about it.
I wouldn't be surprised if they looked at a utopia and complained that the government in power only provided free healthcare, childcare, guaranteed free housing, guaranteed jobs, affordable food, total freedom, etc etc as a ploy to buy votes.
"Look they get 100% of the votes, it must be rigged."
Anyways, you don't have paneras or small entres to wait for the food to arrive? Like a bowl of peanuts at least?
It works by making you start drinking earlier so you end up buying another beverage mid-dinner, it's not a gift is the oldest trick
:-/
Internet Liberals: "We need to do a better job of talking to our friends and neighbors around community issues."
Also Internet Liberals: "Any time white people meet to talk politics, they're doing fascism."
Also Internet Liberals: “Any time white people meet to talk politics, they’re doing fascism.”
:gigachad:
I accidentally reminded the teacher to give homework once.
Dear fucking god I regretted that 10 picoseconds later.
Describes great friendly restaurant experience.
Acts like a self importsant dumdum.
wtf I want to be a regular there, I'll bite my tongue and never call the guy a bischero mangiapatate if he's as nice and generous as the story makes him sound...
In my communist state, she would have the most tolerant attitude to It*lians :anti-italian-action:
when your only restaurant experience is being served by terminally bored teenagers at chili's
31F and never experienced a business owner willing to make their dining experience better.
I can make so many mean assumptions about this lady.
This is clearly a work of fiction with the intent of amuse the public at the expense of the writer
I felt uncomfortable with his overly familiar behavior and that free food felt like a power play, a way to feel as though he had authority over us
Hexbear: "I'm not a neoliberal, I can imagine alternatives to market society"
also bear: "Huh? The traditional gift economy of human life requires reciprocity??? You're crazy lady, just exchange products in the free market as an atomized individual LOL".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy
The French writer Georges Bataille, in La part Maudite, uses Mauss's argument in order to construct a theory of economy: the structure of gift is the presupposition for all possible economy. Bataille is particularly interested in the potlatch as described by Mauss, and claims that its agonistic character obliges the receiver to confirm their own subjection. Thus gifting embodies the Hegelian dipole of master and slave within the act.
BMF quoting Bataille in this situation is actually really fucking on character lmao.
perfectly incomprehensible BMF post, one of your best.
Didn't expect to see hegel come up in this discussion about a pizzeria, thank you BMF
I’m telling this to my grandma when she sends me a birthday card, that conniving selfish bitch
Not to go all "human nature", but there is some inherent psychological consequence of giving and receiving gifts.
If nothing else, a periodic gifting of some necessary commodity creates a dependency on the gift giver. A classic example of this is the idea of a child's "allowance". By extending a weekly stipend to your child, you both grant the child independent agency and provide some amount of leverage by threatening to withhold it.
mass society as such requires reciprocity, socialism merely posits that this reciprocity is on the basis of producers that share a political obligation to eachother and therefore are entitled to the fruits of their labor unmediated through commodity exchange. Hence the line from the first international "no rights without duties, no duties without rights"
it's only a phenomena of modern social democracy and how social democrats have infected the minds of self-identified communists where people expect to have their needs catered towards unconditionally absent any contribution as subjects that are atomized from any obligations place upon them, as if they are living in Wall-E. Of course unstated in this formula whether this is from self-identified "communists" or honest social democrats is that such a system is only possible in a consumer society sustained from the immiseration of the third world proletariat
Obviously, but the panera is not a gift but a trick to make you drink more so you end up buying another beverage mid-dinner. The oldest trick in the book. It's always something salty.
She was the girl in class that reminded the teacher that they forgot to pickup homework
