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We didn’t read the same article. The owner describes giving the same service to bike club members and grannies. They just have an opinion on which they value mo

• brudgers 6y ago
  Some people are more profitable as customers. Other people are less profitable as customers. They are each and all equally valuable people because they’re people. And I know you’re just using language in the way it’s often used. But that’s exactly my point. The author of the article is comfortable passing moral judgement on people based on their instrumental value to him. Valuing older people with money is ethnically and morally equivalent to valuing weight weenies. There is nothing uplifting in the article. No bicycles for migrant agricultural workers. No bicycles for teen mothers. The mentally ill. Ex-cons. The unemployed. Because the author doesn’t value them.
  • mixmastamyk 6y ago
    The proprietor values a sustainable business that supports the community. It's not a charity, but still useful, and that's ok. Didn't state that they're rude to rude customers per se, just discussed them in relation to regular customers. I have no reason currently to disbelieve them.