Toronto's 'Anti-Capitalist' Cafe Closing Down After Just a Year in Business

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

It's a tough time for this type of business model. Reading the article it doesn't sound like it was all that inclusive, more of an echo chamber.

“It’s been an amazing experience, connecting with so many great community members, sparking desperately needed debate, raising the blood pressure of Conservatives (that includes you, “anarcho-capitalists” and “Libertarians”), fulfilling the dream of most service workers by not having to tolerate the presence of professional class-traitors (pigs and military), and experimenting with living and working in ways that don’t enthusiastically embrace the pure misanthropy of Capitalism,” he continued.

I'm not saying that they should have been inclusive of all, after all its their business, they can do what they want. But to survive with a business plan like this you need quite a bit of goodwill. One of my favorite hippy cafes on the planet recently closed permanently after 26 years (Traditions, in Olympia, WA)... This was a place where you could go and get a cheap bowl of soup, listen to live folk music, poetry open mic, again - typical hippy life. They had a TON of community support and they weren't able to survive the pandemic, sadly. They weren't exactly inclusive of "The Man" but they also weren't intentionally antagonistic about it.

[–]LordoftheFlies 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

When you go into business intentionally looking to drive away people who might otherwise be customers, you pretty much deserve what happens when fails. And it's funny how he talks shit about those so-called professional class traitors, because I'll bet he's just like every other "ACAB" type when it comes to his person and property.

[–]StillLessons 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

When you go into business intentionally looking to drive away people who might otherwise be customers, you pretty much deserve what happens when fails.

It's brutally hard work to keep a business (especially small non-funny-money-funded - i.e. Wall Street) viable in an open market. Now they add to that self-imposed limits on customer base? The witnessed result is the only one possible.

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

To a degree - but more importantly it was the wrong location.