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How the Goth pubs of Sweden transformed drinking in Scotland's industrial heartlands

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    alyaza
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    speaking as someone who likes thinking of ways to make existing infrastructure give back to the community, this a neat little model that's never occurred to me. america to my knowledge never...

    speaking as someone who likes thinking of ways to make existing infrastructure give back to the community, this a neat little model that's never occurred to me. america to my knowledge never really had anything similar to this spring up (although i'm sure there are pubs and bars which informally do similar things) despite the fact that drinking is ubiquitous literally everywhere, and it makes me wonder how a model like that would work nowadays. i imagine it'd have to be structured and sold a bit differently to people than it was in these cases--you could never sell it under the auspices of prohibition or temperance for example because frankly, that shit is deader than the dinosaurs--but it's probably a novel idea for funding things in the community if you can get it to stick.

    meta note: this seems to fit with the theme of ~food which covers drinks so i'll also move it there.

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      krg
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      Sounds like a "sin tax", to me.

      Sounds like a "sin tax", to me.

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        alyaza
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        it's definitely not. sin taxes are actual taxes levied on goods, while the model described in the OP article is literally a pub, run as a trust, which delivers a certain percentage of its profits...

        it's definitely not. sin taxes are actual taxes levied on goods, while the model described in the OP article is literally a pub, run as a trust, which delivers a certain percentage of its profits to its shareholders and the rest to the community it resides in. the outcomes are similar, but the practice is not.

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          krg
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          Ya, realize the means are different but figured they were reaching for the same end.

          Ya, realize the means are different but figured they were reaching for the same end.

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          1. alyaza
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            oh then yes, you'd generally be correct. sin taxes are generally not popular, though, since people kinda hate taxes of any kind in the US--i assume the goth pub model would be considerably more...

            oh then yes, you'd generally be correct. sin taxes are generally not popular, though, since people kinda hate taxes of any kind in the US--i assume the goth pub model would be considerably more popular purely on account of that fact, if you judged the two together.

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