Originally Posted by
MaxPen
People who are down on AP's are just jealous because they are lacking the ability to figure out how to liberate themselves from being mired in the system with the rest of the cattle. People inherently want to be independent and live life on their own terms but they find that they must subjugate themselves and sell bits and pieces in order to survive.
While I am not anti-AP I must disagree with your thesis.
You are attempting to romanticize AP's and that dog just won't hunt.
You err in setting AP's up as being independent cowboys.
AP's are NOT independent!
Fact is you are captives of the casinos.
You AP's spend all your working hours in the casinos, obeying their rules (stretching, not breaking them), breathing their air, playing their games.
How is that any different, really, than a guy clerking at a 7-11, or a fireman, or a pharmacist?
We all have to bow down to THE MAN one way or another.
It's not like you can do whatever the hell you want 24-7: you've got to put in the hours, same as the rest of us.
No, you're not special, unique, or exempt: I neither admire nor condemn AP's, they're just a bunch of swinging dicks trying to make a living.