am always at a loss to understand the Star- b uc ks
of this world. They are forever preaching their doctrine of rugged individualism, cut-throat com- petition (you get what you pay for and if you don't like the conditions don't whine about it but go he else), yet feel that they themselves should human outside this jungle law and that the rest of the nurnan race has a moral duty to wipe the Starbucks' noses
They are the people who will accept a sub- sidised airline flight yet publicly demand that the old charwoman creeping to work at 4.30 in the morning must
of necessity pay the full 'economic' fare, who When they 'neY walk into any public place automatically exPect someone to carry their luggage for them and who will walk up the stairs of a flea-bag hotel behind elderly woman staggering under the weight of their personal luggage. Their reason? That they have Paid, and having paid are entitled to abandon all humanitarian courtesy or all feelings of social or uumanitarian responsibility towards those economi- cally less favoured than themselves. Your own tame Starbuck having informed an indifferent world that I _e. gave alms to a bum (or did he finally give his :luvertised charity?) then cries with frustrated rage S_°eeause there is no food for him at eight o'clock at tab at the hotel. But who cares, for we live in a Ntarbuck world and if he does not like the second- ;rate service then let him clear out and pay for first- 1.11e. service or do the same as the lower types and Whaera pub or a fried fish shop. I work in an area every café closes at midday Saturday until aaorni Toriesa)Yf morning for, as the café-owners (all good tion A reqUentlY saY, 'We ain't the bleeding Salva- thei '‘rnly, mate,' and in a Starbuck world I accept ea II' philosophy, I believe in a world where '4r„,,e, 1. Man owes and accepts a responsibility for his bour and not for monetary gain but we un- unatelY live in a Starbuck world, so Starbuck ust learn to accept it without whining.
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