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Oh wow. You really have no idea how a huge number of Americans live. Also, even homeless people are allowed to borrow books from a public library, in fact! But

Oh wow. You really have no idea how a huge number of Americans live. Also, even homeless people are allowed to borrow books from a public library, in fact! But, no, there are many many people who struggle and hustle and have a place to live but don't have an extra $200 to leave sitting at the library. You don't need to be ashamed that you literally don't know any of them, assuming you live in the USA, America is a really segregated (and I don't just mean racially) society. It's not your choice or fault. But you could be aware of it, believe me, to ask that question you have no idea how a good chunk of the USA lives. (But also... can you imagine any business that required a $200 deposit to have an account with them, and how that would effect their business? Like imagine grubhub or blueapron or something. Even people that can afford $200 really don't want to begin their relationship with a business by giving them $200 to hold. Occasionally a 'business' which someone really has no choice but to use, like the electric utility, gets away with requiring a deposit. The mission of a public library is serving as many people as it can, a policy that drastically reduced the number of people interested in using the library would be a huge failure for the library).

kazinator 5y ago
> You really have no idea how a huge number of Americans live. Yes I do, and I wouldn't lend books, or anything else, into that environment.
- p1necone 5y ago
  Man, fuck you.
- jrochkind1 5y ago
  If you think that everybody with a place to live has $200 to spare, as you said, then you don't understand how many Americans life. But anyway, I'm glad you're not running any of my municipal services, and am glad that you (hopefully) aren't my neighbor! So, okay, you _know_ how many people couldn't afford the $200 deposit, and don't see this as a problem because you don't think they deserve library service? I'm sorry, I misunderstood your original point, or I wouldn't have bothered talking to you.
  - kazinator 5y ago
    > am glad that you (hopefully) aren't my neighbor! So it's OK for you to have standards: someone who merely doesn't subscribe to the whole white, liberal, upper-middle class socio-econo-political guilt-ridden value system is not fit to live next door to you. But a library must not have lending standards that even smell of having any socio-economic entanglement.

kazinator 5y ago

> You really have no idea how a huge number of Americans live. Yes I do, and I wouldn't lend books, or anything else, into that environment.

p1necone 5y ago
Man, fuck you.
jrochkind1 5y ago
If you think that everybody with a place to live has $200 to spare, as you said, then you don't understand how many Americans life. But anyway, I'm glad you're not running any of my municipal services, and am glad that you (hopefully) aren't my neighbor! So, okay, you _know_ how many people couldn't afford the $200 deposit, and don't see this as a problem because you don't think they deserve library service? I'm sorry, I misunderstood your original point, or I wouldn't have bothered talking to you.
- kazinator 5y ago
  > am glad that you (hopefully) aren't my neighbor! So it's OK for you to have standards: someone who merely doesn't subscribe to the whole white, liberal, upper-middle class socio-econo-political guilt-ridden value system is not fit to live next door to you. But a library must not have lending standards that even smell of having any socio-economic entanglement.