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> Meanwhile, I hope the trend of playing louder and louder music in cafes, restaurants and bars dies out. I don't hold out much hope because as far as I can te
by gravescale 2y ago
> Meanwhile, I hope the trend of playing louder and louder music in cafes, restaurants and bars dies out.
I don't hold out much hope because as far as I can tell it's done to make everyone "shut up and drink". I could believe it adds at least 50% to sales because when you can't hear a word anyone says, all you can do is smile and nod and take a swig. And if the place is already full anyway, they don't care if you leave, you'll be replaced. What matters is whoever is in there taking up a space is drinking as fast as possible.
Of course, people who get substantially drunk (which is to say, customers who spend) also don't care because they're not really listening closely or making conversational sense anyway and their pain tolerance is way up, so it's just a good time to them.
Even more cynically, it also keeps the place "cool" because all the old, past-it fogeys like me don't even bother going in. From this sample of one, someone who thinks the music is too loud is un-hip, isn't adding to any hookup appeal (either not in the market or pushing the creepy end of the age range) and won't even spend much because they can't get really hammered because the hangover will take them out for two days and they can't afford to lose a weekend.
- HPsquared 2y agoIt's depressing to think of the different ways people are treated like livestock on a factory farm.
- 100721 2y agoIt's depressing to think of the different ways livestock are treated like livestock on a factory farm, too. Factory farms are hell on earth.
- rayrey 2y agoI need to find the article about the multistory pig farm in China. The whole lifecycle from piglet to fattening up and slaughter all in one convenient location.
- throwup238 2y agoAt least livestock gets to grow up in pasture before they’re sent to the feedlots.
- noSyncCloud 2y agoThis is, in fact, not always common. I guess it probably depends on the country/region to some extent.
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- throwup238 2y agoI was thinking of cattle but totally forgot about pigs and chickens.
- BeFlatXIII 2y agoNot all livestock is so lucky to have been born a cow.
- thsksbd 2y agoNot just restaurants and bars. Artificial sounds is everywhere. There was a musician (fairly accomplished in his field) who woke up one day and started hating all music because he realized you cannot escape it. He wrote a book about it but I forget his name.
- gravescale 2y agoInteresting. As an aside, I searched for "musician book can't escape music" and your comment was on the front page of the Google results in sixth position. In fact it was in nearly every search I tried. I couldn't find such a book with moderate trying, just a BBC Point of View transcript on the same thing. It's personally not a problem I've really noticed in my day to day (for example, today I would only hear music on my headphones at work and as part of TV others in the house are watching at home), though I probably don't spend my time in the same places a musician would.