Comment by ifyoubuildit
6 months ago
This seems like exactly a win win for cafes and for people that want to easily find a place to work remotely. Who loses out here otherwise?
> Extracting money out of everyday life to make our world less friendly and more expensive.
Isn't this what people are doing if they take up a seat in a cafe without buying things? They're making it so the cafe has to charge more to actual customers to survive.
Something that cafe "squatters" don't like to see: they're using a coffee shop as a shared office space, but gratis. The coffee owners tolerate this in exchange for sales, but the most egregious squatters will buy a coffee and let it sit for hours, and maybe go eat somewhere else when they get hungry.
Maybe a simpler solution is what I've seen some coffee shops discretely implement: chairs that are uncomfortable to sit for hours.