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TLDR to earn (tax free?) money, it has nothing to do with hospitality

by Markoff 2mo ago

tjomk 2mo ago
Let's go the US way and arrest children for doing lemonade stands. How dare they not get a license and pay their taxes to Uncle Sam! /s
- baal80spam 2mo ago
  > arrest children for doing lemonade stands Get your facts straight. This is the EU-way. It literally happened in Poland - a child got fined for a lemonade stand.
  - helsinkiandrew 2mo ago
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- Markoff 2mo ago
  Or maybe let's just not pretend people are inviting strangers into their gardens because they wanna meet them as that clickbait title pretend and not just to earn money.
- xyzelement 2mo ago
  Low IQ take. There are probably millions of child lemonade stands in the US. I think you must be referring to a story where one family was asked to take down theirs for some reason. The reason that story was written and is memorable is because it's so whacky and unusual. I expect my kids to run lemonade stands with no complications:)
  - john_strinlai 2mo ago
    this comment would be so much better if you didn't start with "Low IQ take.".
    - youaremidwit 2mo ago
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tauntz 2mo ago
It depends - for some, it's a commercial event. For others, like me, it's just an opportunity to challenge yourself and see if you can make delicious food for a bunch of people :) I'll be happy if I can cover the cost of ingredients this weekend, but if not, that's fine too!
- Markoff 2mo ago
  TLDR you still want money from your visitors, no matter whether to cover expenses or make profit, that's not what we call hospitality back here in central Europe. Hospitality is when you don't expect anything in return for inviting someone somewhere, can't imagine inviting someone to my place and then charge them my expenses, that's very USan way of invitation...
  - tauntz 2mo ago
    I was not commenting on the "hospitality" definition but on the "earn tax free money" aspect. Just saying, that the goal, for most (?), is not.. this.
  - iammjm 2mo ago
    That’s your personal and rather narrow definition of hospitality, and that’s also coming from someone from Central Europe. There definitely can be hospitality with reciprocity, like when my friends host a party and invite me and everybody brings drinks or snacks or drugs or anything else they want to contribute, or even leave some money if they didn’t manage to bring anything
    - Markoff 2mo ago
      bringing something (like bottle of wine) while visiting someone is pretty normal everywhere around even when invited now asking people you invited for money to cover your expenses, certainly is not normal in most of the world apples and oranges, you are mixing up two completely different things and these people are not really inviting friends or people they know to their place, they just run some small stand from their own home to make money, completely different ocassion/event than having a (birthday) party

TLDR to earn (tax free?) money, it has nothing to do with hospitality

by Markoff 2mo ago

TLDR to earn (tax free?) money, it has nothing to do with hospitality

tjomk 2mo ago

Let's go the US way and arrest children for doing lemonade stands. How dare they not get a license and pay their taxes to Uncle Sam! /s

baal80spam 2mo ago
> arrest children for doing lemonade stands Get your facts straight. This is the EU-way. It literally happened in Poland - a child got fined for a lemonade stand.
- helsinkiandrew 2mo ago
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Markoff 2mo ago
Or maybe let's just not pretend people are inviting strangers into their gardens because they wanna meet them as that clickbait title pretend and not just to earn money.
xyzelement 2mo ago
Low IQ take. There are probably millions of child lemonade stands in the US. I think you must be referring to a story where one family was asked to take down theirs for some reason. The reason that story was written and is memorable is because it's so whacky and unusual. I expect my kids to run lemonade stands with no complications:)
- john_strinlai 2mo ago
  this comment would be so much better if you didn't start with "Low IQ take.".
  - youaremidwit 2mo ago
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tauntz 2mo ago

It depends - for some, it's a commercial event. For others, like me, it's just an opportunity to challenge yourself and see if you can make delicious food for a bunch of people :) I'll be happy if I can cover the cost of ingredients this weekend, but if not, that's fine too!

Markoff 2mo ago
TLDR you still want money from your visitors, no matter whether to cover expenses or make profit, that's not what we call hospitality back here in central Europe. Hospitality is when you don't expect anything in return for inviting someone somewhere, can't imagine inviting someone to my place and then charge them my expenses, that's very USan way of invitation...
- tauntz 2mo ago
  I was not commenting on the "hospitality" definition but on the "earn tax free money" aspect. Just saying, that the goal, for most (?), is not.. this.
- iammjm 2mo ago
  That’s your personal and rather narrow definition of hospitality, and that’s also coming from someone from Central Europe. There definitely can be hospitality with reciprocity, like when my friends host a party and invite me and everybody brings drinks or snacks or drugs or anything else they want to contribute, or even leave some money if they didn’t manage to bring anything
  - Markoff 2mo ago
    bringing something (like bottle of wine) while visiting someone is pretty normal everywhere around even when invited now asking people you invited for money to cover your expenses, certainly is not normal in most of the world apples and oranges, you are mixing up two completely different things and these people are not really inviting friends or people they know to their place, they just run some small stand from their own home to make money, completely different ocassion/event than having a (birthday) party