Walk into a STARBUCKS, order a coffee, then try to find a place to sit...
...and just about anywhere you look, the tables are dirty, coffee spills and crumbs galore. The floor is littered with napkins, wrappers, muddy footprints.
STARBUCKS cares not about its reputation as a corporate cafe catering to civilian aristocrats, it seems.
This whole society's like this now:
Doing everything on the cheap. Laying off workers at a time when tax revenue for social safety nets is dwindling. Eschewing the ethos of health and safety procedures and knowledge. Business, government and authority all obsessed with the "bottom lines": profit and power tripping.
Even legitimate businesses and companies are behaving like "snake oil" scam artists. And those in charge are "taking lessons from Stalin and Draco".
Racism is in vogue again.
Rules and laws seem to just be a joke: libraries are noisy; reckless driving is ubiquitous; bicyclists race their overpriced 20-speed two-wheel contraptions at full speed on crowded sidewalks; "normal" people behaving like storm troopers everywhere they go---pouring into public and commercial spaces "out of nowhere", acting aggressive and loud, taking up tons of space and blocking aisles and doorways, as if they just "bought the property" and "they're the new owners now" and "everything's going to done THEIR WAY from here on in" ...
Professionals perform their tasks half-assed and are seldom punctual when it comes to scheduled appointments, keeping customers/patients/clients waiting for long periods of time---or not even showing up at all.
...and just about anywhere you look, the tables are dirty, coffee spills and crumbs galore. The floor is littered with napkins, wrappers, muddy footprints.
STARBUCKS cares not about its reputation as a corporate cafe catering to civilian aristocrats, it seems.
This whole society's like this now:
Doing everything on the cheap. Laying off workers at a time when tax revenue for social safety nets is dwindling. Eschewing the ethos of health and safety procedures and knowledge. Business, government and authority all obsessed with the "bottom lines": profit and power tripping.
Even legitimate businesses and companies are behaving like "snake oil" scam artists. And those in charge are "taking lessons from Stalin and Draco".
Racism is in vogue again.
Rules and laws seem to just be a joke: libraries are noisy; reckless driving is ubiquitous; bicyclists race their overpriced 20-speed two-wheel contraptions at full speed on crowded sidewalks; "normal" people behaving like storm troopers everywhere they go---pouring into public and commercial spaces "out of nowhere", acting aggressive and loud, taking up tons of space and blocking aisles and doorways, as if they just "bought the property" and "they're the new owners now" and "everything's going to done THEIR WAY from here on in" ...
Professionals perform their tasks half-assed and are seldom punctual when it comes to scheduled appointments, keeping customers/patients/clients waiting for long periods of time---or not even showing up at all.
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