• lynny@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Good. The rule is stupid and deserves to be worked around. Water is essential. I hate when I go to these kinds of public places and they give you no option to get water other than bringing it yourself. Poor logistics on the part of the event organizers.

    • dystop@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      The official reason for such rules are usually “we need a mix of vendors” or something like that.

      The unofficial, true reason is usually that the organizer wants to be the only one selling water so they can sell it for $5.

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            It doesn’t look like the rule is from the event organizers. Most likely local government who want’s the money from the event while keeping the turnover high so that people will come, spend their money, and fuck off as soon as possible.

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              I think it’s more likely that the festival has other stalls selling water for a ridiculous markup.

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    My city has bullshit laws like this that are created solely to continue the monopolies held by gangsters and goons who pay politicians for their support.

    In my city a food truck can’t park within view or 100ft of a restaurant. The reasoning was that the food trucks would hurt restaurants. But if the restaurant can’t compete with the food truck food that’s on them, and it sucks us all over who want a bite but don’t want to pay an arm and a leg for a sit down meal

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      In my city a food truck can’t park within view or 100ft of a restaurant.

      Doesn’t that mean literally no food trucks along Main Street or wherever all the shops are?

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    This is often (but not always!) done at events where either the organizers, or the permitting government, suspects that people may use drugs and want to “discourage” such behavior.

    TBH that just makes it more of a human rights violation.

    I went to a club in NYC 20-ish years ago and they were selling bottled water for $6 a bottle (in 2001!) The bathrooms only had hot water so no one could refill. It was also quite hot in the main room. Scumbags.

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      How does not selling watter discourages drug use? Like, i get that some drugs can or must be diluted in watter, but I know you can get high on most things without it. What was their logic? Drugs bad :c Heatstroke yay c:!??

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      You are on the right track but it is more malicious than that.

      The drug deals done in dance clubs is generally the clubs own product being sold. In every jurisdiction in the US essentially, establishments that serve alcohol are by law required to serve free water. If some suckers spend the $6 on water, cool, but otherwise, those water bottles are the best way to hide drug profits.

      Ever wonder why DJs are spraying the crowd down with bottled water from the bar and it isn’t just part of the clubs set design? They gotta get rid of the inventory.