I didn’t say there was. But it would be naive to think that getting a tax deduction wasn’t part of the calculation, either. And when you’re talking about thousands of dollars vs. a few hundred dollars, that matters in the equation too.
The fact that it could happen is down to it being in Berkeley. That doesn’t mean that other punks in other places wouldn’t have also liked such status, considering that all-ages spaces tend to struggle financially, even though they’re providing something of a public service (keeping kids “off the streets” and giving them a place to hang out and express themselves). I imagine that the two coffee shops and the one attempt at a punk club in my hometown (all of which failed) would have been incredibly helpful place for us to have and would have dealt with the problem that authorities decided we had with kids hanging out on the streets.
