rinbaum on Nostr: Imagine a small group of humans, who after working as bartenders and waitstaff at a ...

Imagine a small group of humans, who after working as bartenders and waitstaff at a bar, decide to open their own bar. They start putting together the elements - they have the property, they are building the paraphernalia necessary to open a bar - a bar top itself, chairs, booze, lighting, refrigeration, glasses - but then someone says "we need a bouncer". "We need to protect the bar from threats both external and internal (drunkards looking to start a fight or worse)". The others agree and they hire somone for the sole purpose of being for "the common defense" of the bar.

But over time, the bouncer begins getting more intrusive.He demands control of the supplies going in and out of the bar, who gets hired and fired, and ultimately demands controls of the finances of the bar "in order to defend the bar against threats". Meanwhile., the bouncer is teaming with other bouncers at other bars, and those bouncers now have their own market where they exchange funds, make hiring decisions, making bulk supply orders on which the bouncers skim a discount and charge the regular price to the bars.

At what point did the founders of the bar lose control of their bar? It was so long ago that no one even remembers a bar before the bouncers had taken control.

Ring a bell at all? Anything?