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> places to feel safe that are not guarded by private security. I never thought of it this way, but this must be most of the draw behind Disney Land.
by gerbilly 7y ago
> places to feel safe that are not guarded by private security.
I never thought of it this way, but this must be most of the draw behind Disney Land.
- dredmorbius 7y agoThe gate fee keeps the undesirables out as well. Much as a bar's cover charge is a filter. Conversation I had a few years back, at New Years: "Why would anyone pay $100 just to enter a bar?" "To be at a bar with people who can afford to pay $100 to enter." A similar role, though different mechanism, is described by Joseph Wood Krutch: "There's nothing like a good bad dirt road to screen out the faintly interested and to invite in the genuinely interested." Often recast as "bad roads make good filters". https://www.greensboro.com/the-highway-less-traveled/article_5e9d9ffd-5abf-59d4-8630-048594cbcb88.html https://www.greensboro.com/the-highway-less-traveled/article...