Anti-Capitalist cafe (The Anarchist) in Toronto is shutting down

[Ganger]

The owner Gabriel Sims opened his cafe in Toronto cananda in march 2022 as a anti-capitalist cafe were customers would pay what they can afford to pay for the coffee while higher prices for other drinks helped subsidise the shop as well as selling merchandise. But now the cafe will close it doors after a year in business after failing to make enough money.


The Anarchist opened in March of last year with a goal of making third-wave, specialty coffee drinks accessible to working-class and poor people. The cafe offered pay-what-you-can drip coffee alongside a range of lattes, teas and pastries. It also carried radical books, prints, and merchandise. People were not required to make a purchase at the cafe to use its restroom facilities or rest in the space

'Unfortunately, the lack of generational wealth/seed capital from ethically bankrupt sources left me unable to weather the quiet winter season, or to grow in the ways needed to be sustainable longer-term,' owner Gabriel Sims-Fewer wrote

All I can say is fair play and respect on him for opening up a business in these bad times in a business model that was clearly going to fail form the get go but at least he had the guts to give it a try.

But then his closing statements about 'F*** the rich. F*** the police. F*** the state. F*** the colonial death camp we call 'Canada' and he other states about the police and military kind of lets this chap down in my book. But good luck to him for the future.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/anti-capitalist-cafe-closes-toronto-b2340006.html

[gugnihr]

Anti capitalist business fails... no, no, listen, even better: private anti capitalist business fails... how strange
LOL

[Guccisega]

look bro you still have to pay youre taxes to politicians who make 100 times the money us "normal" people make

[Q-T_3.14.exe]

What?

[Dracoco OwO]

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[GloriousZote]

What did he think was going to happen?

[Your_White_Knight]

Escrito originalmente por Ganger:

Anti-Capitalist cafe (The Anarchist) in Toronto is shutting down

The owner Gabriel Sims opened his cafe in Toronto cananda in march 2022 as a anti-capitalist cafe were customers would pay what they can afford to pay for the coffee while higher prices for other drinks helped subsidise the shop as well as selling merchandise. But now the cafe will close it doors after a year in business after failing to make enough money.


The Anarchist opened in March of last year with a goal of making third-wave, specialty coffee drinks accessible to working-class and poor people. The cafe offered pay-what-you-can drip coffee alongside a range of lattes, teas and pastries. It also carried radical books, prints, and merchandise. People were not required to make a purchase at the cafe to use its restroom facilities or rest in the space

'Unfortunately, the lack of generational wealth/seed capital from ethically bankrupt sources left me unable to weather the quiet winter season, or to grow in the ways needed to be sustainable longer-term,' owner Gabriel Sims-Fewer wrote

All I can say is fair play and respect on him for opening up a business in these bad times in a business model that was clearly going to fail form the get go but at least he had the guts to give it a try.

But then his closing statements about 'F*** the rich. F*** the police. F*** the state. F*** the colonial death camp we call 'Canada' and he other states about the police and military kind of lets this chap down in my book. But good luck to him for the future.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/anti-capitalist-cafe-closes-toronto-b2340006.html

No surprise there...

It like other nonsense just proves itself to be nothing but dreams and fantasy... reality wins again

[SMIFFY]

He sounds like your standard middle class hipster poser to me.

[Dusk ✨]

Did he not realize no ethically bankrupt person would spend an inordinate amount of money on coffee

[Supersquid]

Of course the communists go bankrupt XD

[Ganger]

Escrito originalmente por Your_White_Knight:

No surprise there...

It like other nonsense just proves itself to be nothing but dreams and fantasy... reality wins again

The thing is, he gave it a try which gets my respect any day.. I don't agree with his views but still. But in another post he says something like.. "you would have people in suits paying $1 for coffee while unhoused people would pay $10". Clearly people with common sense aren't going to pay full price for coffee if they don't need too.

[Your_White_Knight]

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What did he think was going to happen?

People were going to give him free stuff so he can give out free stuff forever.

You know...

Magic was going to happen.

[Your_White_Knight]

Escrito originalmente por Ganger:

Escrito originalmente por Your_White_Knight:

No surprise there...

It like other nonsense just proves itself to be nothing but dreams and fantasy... reality wins again

The thing is, he gave it a try which gets my respect any day.. I don't agree with his views but still. But in another post he says something like.. "you would have people in suits paying $1 for coffee while unhoused people would pay $10". Clearly people with common sense aren't going to pay full price for coffee if they don't need too.

No more then any "CHAZ" or "CHOP" that was tried...

Clearly people like him don't have common sense if he thinks "unhoused" ( oh please ) people would pay $10 for coffee and people in suits only pay $1... it's the backwards thinking that's delusional at best... and he just proved himself wrong by going out of business

[GloriousZote]

Escrito originalmente por Your_White_Knight:

Escrito originalmente por GloriousZote:

What did he think was going to happen?

People were going to give him free stuff so he can give out free stuff forever.

You know...

Magic was going to happen.

That just sounds like trading with extra steps.

[SMIFFY]

Apparently it's not closing down, no doubt this was a marketing stunt, he probably got one of his friends in advertising to set it all up.

https://theanarchist.ca/

[Incarnate]

The "pay what you can" business model just appeals to freeloaders.

Any actual anarchist who understands human behavior would know this. What was this, a money laundering scheme or something? This is too stupid to ever be a real business idea. This whole idea sounds fishy.