Restaurants are the odd business no one ever figured out how to outsource to China or India or code & thus never attracted the full conquest of the corporate rape culture elites who feasted in them.
When plague hit, elites shrugged, "Euthanize 'em" medium.com/@erinkimberlywade/public-meaning-why-congress-needs-to-replenish-the-restaurant-revitalization-fund-2a46e97e6df7
Elites said the same thing about deindustrialization in the 80s, that it was a "mercy killing."
Actually it was a deranged scheme to subsidize the factories of literally every non USSR country for the sole purpose of adding zeroes to the offshore bank balances of oligarchs.
I worked in DC restaurants for 7 yrs. The ruling class always seemed to like us! (My fanciest restaurant was co-owned by a lobbyist who'd run gov affairs at CITIGROUP when it got the BIGGE$T BAILOUT OF ALL TIME)
Bailing out restaurants, tho...HARD Pass twitter.com/moetkacik/status/1492115422522527744
Save for the money, food & coworkers, I hated everything about restaurant work. slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/trump-administration-tippers-fine-dining-dc.html I would never be so insufferably defensive about them if I could name ONE other US industry that didn't boil down to "Ponzi scheme/extortion racket + upscale marketing"
And GOD it annoys me when people say "going back to doing things IRL" is a nefarious real estate developer plot.
As if real estate developers would somehow allow themselves to be the ONE class of oligarch who didn't get 4-8 times richer during the pandemic.
Anyway I wish there were more essays in the "Small Business Owner Looks at Late Capitalism" genre bc this one is fucking brilliant. medium.com/@erinkimberlywade/public-meaning-why-congress-needs-to-replenish-the-restaurant-revitalization-fund-2a46e97e6df7
Full disclosure Erin Wade is not just a brilliant critic, she is also a farmer & friend & ally of the @economicliberties struggle to unite small business on Gratuitous Big Tech Disruption. newyorker.com/culture/q-and-a/the-fight-to-rein-in-delivery-apps
And here's a story about how Barcelona is trying to ban "ghost kitchens" and we should too themayor.eu/en/a/view/barcelona-aims-to-ban-ghost-kitchens-and-dark-markets-10118
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