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A friend and I were walking on Melrose Ave around midnight in Los Angeles prior to getting take out from Canters, which is what passes for a night out in Pandemic times. (If you’re being safe and not flipping the bird at the virus and going to underground bars/clubs etc.) And as we did the de rigueur windowshopping we spotted this little gem. I was stunned and had to take a pic. It’s eye-catching, I will give it that.
Now I don’t dislike this foosball table per se, I think it looks pretty damn cool. But given what I expect is the pricetag, I think it might be a sign of the apocalypse, and certainly a pass to the front of the line for the guillotine when the revolution comes. There wasn’t a price marked on it, but google shopping reveals comparable items at the $17,000.00 mark.
I don’t know what that number means to you, but to me it is the payoff amount for my 2018 Kia hybrid. So if you’re spending more than my car is worth on a foosball table, regardless of its modern design aesthetic, you’re going to catch some sideeye. And hopefully more when the workers of the world unite and seize the means of production. And then, in some future workers paradise, there will be a foosball table in every home, fin de siecle design elements optional.
