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@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ Link to Book: [Amazon.com: Barista in the City: Subcultural Lives, Paid Employme
 
 > 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?
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-> 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.
+> 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 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.
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-> 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.
+> Also, coffee shops, they're expensive, they're busy, and serve predominantly white customers. And most of the baristas who attracted to the coffee shop are white as well. 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.
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 > Most couldn't afford the expensive coffee drinks they're serving, you know, and it's expensive even living in neighborhoods that are gentrifying.