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 - **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)
-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.
 
-They they had time to develop a more intense subcultural experience and set up neighborhood enclaves such as New York's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's North Beach. But today's alternative subcultural participants, whether hipsters, bohemians, or punks, must normally work full time or nearly full time to survive. The baristas we interviewed, worked about 32 hours a week, almost full time. So their place of employment just limits their subcultural activities and becomes a more substantial part of their lives. Bohemians hardly ever talked about their day jobs.
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-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.
+> 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.
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+> They they had time to develop a more intense subcultural experience and set up neighborhood enclaves such as New York's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's North Beach. But today's alternative subcultural participants, whether hipsters, bohemians, or punks, must normally work full time or nearly full time to survive. The baristas we interviewed, worked about 32 hours a week, almost full time. So their place of employment just limits their subcultural activities and becomes a more substantial part of their lives. Bohemians hardly ever talked about their day jobs.
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+> 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.
 
-Speaker 0: 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?
+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.