From 017134708bb7bd9e2f31c577a7be41016673db17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Deepak Jois Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:42:47 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Obsidian Sync 2024-09-11 19:42:47 --- content/daily-notes/2024-09-11.md | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/daily-notes/2024-09-11.md b/content/daily-notes/2024-09-11.md index b15ae3a3..c17485e9 100644 --- a/content/daily-notes/2024-09-11.md +++ b/content/daily-notes/2024-09-11.md @@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ Snippet from ChatGPT summary - Sermons criticized husbands for insufficient love, promoting equality within marriage. - **Quote**: "By the 17th century, churches actually criticized husbands for showing insufficient love." -Quotes from the transcript of the Coffee Culture podcast episode of Thinking Allowed (see link above) +#### Quotes from the transcript of the Coffee Culture podcast episode of Thinking Allowed (see link above) -Link to +Link to Book: [Amazon.com: Barista in the City: Subcultural Lives, Paid Employment, and the Urban Context (Routledge Critical Beverage Studies) eBook : Moss, Geoffrey, McIntosh, Keith, Protasiuk, Ewa](https://www.amazon.com/Barista-City-Subcultural-Employment-Routledge-ebook/dp/B0CKFMCGHC) > Well, cities used to be much less expensive places to live. That kind of bohemian lifestyle, was very much a thing for many people. But in in the US context, health care and college costs have risen dramatically. Gentrification has increased dramatically. The bohemians of old, they used to survive in the city by working maybe 1 or 2 days a week. > @@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ Link to > > They just weren't that important to them. For baristas, when you're working 32 hours a week, your day job's important. And we need to carefully investigate it if we're to ascertain the extent to which hipsters, baristas are able to live lives that are thoroughly hip and alternative. -Host: How would you describe the book's central thesis? Were you really able to draw any firm conclusions about the about the future of urban baristas? - -Speaker 6: Although we focused a lot on the work and lives of, baristas, our central concern in the end was about their ability to lead subcultural lives, an alternative to having a regular mainstream, job and plenty of time to do alternative stuff like art and music and hanging out in cool places and going to thrift shops, etcetera. But the realities of their city, their country, their their coffee shop employment often conflicted with this endeavor. They faced rude customers, tired feet, and strained wrists during their typically 32 hour work week. Gee, is this really an alternative? They lived in neighborhoods that conflicted with their progressive orientation. - -Also, coffee shops, they're expensive, they're bushy, and and serve predominantly white customers. And most of the baristas who attracted to the coffee shop are white as well. So so for that reason and many other reasons, their lives are not alternative to mainstream existence. Your neoliberal policies and structures of class, race, gender, gentrification, it intersects with their employment in ways that diminish the extent to which their lives are thoroughly compatible with their hipster's subcultural ethos. And they don't even have adequate income for subcultural consumption. - -Most couldn't afford the expensive coffee drinks they're serving, you know, and it's expensive even living in neighborhoods that are gentrifying. +> Host: How would you describe the book's central thesis? Were you really able to draw any firm conclusions about the about the future of urban baristas? +> +> Speaker: Although we focused a lot on the work and lives of, baristas, our central concern in the end was about their ability to lead subcultural lives, an alternative to having a regular mainstream, job and plenty of time to do alternative stuff like art and music and hanging out in cool places and going to thrift shops, etcetera. But the realities of their city, their country, their their coffee shop employment often conflicted with this endeavor. They faced rude customers, tired feet, and strained wrists during their typically 32 hour work week. Gee, is this really an alternative? They lived in neighborhoods that conflicted with their progressive orientation. +> +> Also, coffee shops, they're expensive, they're bushy, and and serve predominantly white customers. And most of the baristas who attracted to the coffee shop are white as well. So so for that reason and many other reasons, their lives are not alternative to mainstream existence. Your neoliberal policies and structures of class, race, gender, gentrification, it intersects with their employment in ways that diminish the extent to which their lives are thoroughly compatible with their hipster's subcultural ethos. And they don't even have adequate income for subcultural consumption. +> +> Most couldn't afford the expensive coffee drinks they're serving, you know, and it's expensive even living in neighborhoods that are gentrifying.