The Journal of Labor Research claims to have a proof study that shows all us alcoholics are better off than anyone else…. That’s right drinkers are better off than non-drinkers.
“Social drinking builds social capital,” said Edward Stringham, an economics professor at San Jose State University and co-author of the study with fellow researcher Bethany Peters.
“Social drinkers are out networking, building relationships, and adding contacts to their BlackBerries that result in bigger paychecks.”
The problem with this study is that this hypothesis is as they admit based on “casual observation and examination of scholarly accounts”. Which means just by watching drunks at a bar and observing their paychecks they’ve made the claim that drinkers are richer than those poor bastards that don’t go out and can’t afford the $10 cocktail and hence don’t socialize in those liquor fuels settings… hmmm… quite observant guys!
Funny how this article does not point out that socializing in bars under the influence is a direct result of the chemical reactions to alcohol – its called intoxication.
Mindless fun if you want to read the whole story:
Alcohol use helps boost income: study
How often are you going out clubbing and this happens to you… You spend about 20 minutes to an hour and half getting duded up for a mega club or hipster bar. Hair’s just right, the vintage belt buckle and $200 ripped jeans are fittin’. You meet your other fashionable bitches and head off to the spot. Getting there, you have to deal with a 50+ person lines, brainless velvet rope apes, or self-absorbed, clipboard-carrying VIP line bitches. Once inside you’re dealing with snub clubbers that are equally bitter about the “getting in” ordeal then you have to waste more time getting a $12 drink that’s been watered down the night before, filled over the rim with ice or just poured week. Patrons are assholes, ugly, pretenscious snobs with no style or anything interesting to say. It seems getting trashed is the only way to have a blow out time…and you just spent too much time and money to get there.