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| Anti-capitalist 'pay what you can' café in Toronto closes after one year in business |
| 2023-05-17 |
*Snicker* Communism only works when it has the power of the state to enforce. After all, the experiment has been tried at both large and small scale in a variety of cultures before, with consistent results. The reproducibility is robust. [NYPOST] A self-described "anti-capitalist" café and coffee shop in Canada named The Anarchist with a "pay what you can" business model will close at the end of the month after just over a year in business.The Toronto shop, which opened in March 2022, will close on May 30, its owner announced in a statement, blaming a "lack of generational wealth/seed capital from ethically bankrupt sources." The café offered drip coffee to customers with a "pay what you can" price tag while charging for other beverages like espresso and tea drinks as well as breakfast pastries to subsidize the lost revenue. It also allowed the public to use its restroom and hang out in the storefront without making a purchase. The store also carried a selection of radical books, art, pins, T-shirts and more for sale. Related: Toronto: 2023-05-02 Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian Folk Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 84 Toronto: 2023-04-17 Iran sentences ten military members to prison In 2020 downing Of Ukrainian airliner that killed 176 Toronto: 2023-04-12 Canada has imposed new sanctions over Russia’s invasion in Ukraine and pledged fresh military support for Kyiv |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 It seems like there was another one of these that closed in Portland a couple of years ago. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-05-17 15:11 |
| #7 It did Skid, for a year. Love that blaming "lack of Generational wealth". No money from you old man, huh? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2023-05-17 13:14 |
| #6 Would have thought Biden's COVID funding kept him/it/them afloat. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-05-17 12:59 |
| #5 Your business model, Komrade? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-05-17 11:11 |
| #4 "Free" is usually priced appropriately. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-05-17 07:44 |
| #3 "Means based" payments. Not unlike the modest increase in your 'Uninsured Mexican' coverage on your State Farm or USAA statement. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-05-17 07:37 |
| #2 For a liberal, "pay what you can" usually turns in to "pay what you want to", i.e. "nothing". |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-05-17 07:21 |
| #1 What? The Anti-Cap's did not support their own agenda in practice? Those with $$$ just abused the practice to keep more of their wealth? That's never happened before in 2,500 years. 😏 |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2023-05-17 06:29 |