Not only has union power declined rapidly in America but I have also noticed an alarming lack of office wide bowling teams, a much more pressing issue
@evan no joke there are people who’ve written about this phenomenon as part of pieces regarding the degrade of non-capitalistic Non-work social institutions in America (bowling leagues being one example)
@fakemaxkeeble that’s probably really interesting and i’ll look it up later but as long as we’re putting it all on the table this post was inspired by a throwaway line about the radio station’s bowling league in an early episode of frasier
@evan @fakemaxkeeble which in turn was likely inspired by the 1995 essay and later book "Bowling Alone" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003DYGOO6/ because culture is always an ouroboros
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