The purpose here isn't "Maximally efficient charitable donation" it is "Create a Schelling point by which Starbucks and I are mutually as happy with me sitting in a chair as if I had ordered a milkshake without requiring me to drink a milkshake."
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I think this is happily consumer-side and producer-side viral, since it solves a real problem for e.g. servers: "Not ready to order yet; waiting for someone." "Got it; can I get you a drink or want one for a friend?"
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What does "I'm buying one for our friends." refer to? This somehow means you're buying a chair and not a drink?
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"I'm buying a drink for our friends [who are not here in this moment to *have* the drink, but I trust you to make sure someone gets to drink as a result of this transaction, perhaps somewhere where it is much more efficient than $4.95 to service that request]."
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in the days when most people were by-default church-affiliated, the church was an indoor third place -- one didn't have to pay to use it, and others came there, some to do specific things, but many just to socialize.
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Tea-rooms serve this purpose in my city. You could order a 15$ tea, that will be expertly prepared and brought to you. Or you can order 5$ tea, ask for 4 cups and self-service. They will bring you hot water in termos, free refill. By hour 3 the tea was homeopathic :) Nobody mind.
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Coffee is a conversational crutch in other ways. Imagine meeting a stranger but you have nothing to do with your hands, you can't say "you want to try this?" or "how's your drink?", and you can't cover dead air by taking a sip of your drink while thinking of something to say.
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I know some countries where several years back was popular a concept that was called "anticafe": you pay per person per minute you're there (and coffee and some snacks are free); people come to play board games, just meet, that kind of thing.
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What I want to find is: a social activity to occupy the spaces between words. A chess board works for a few people… but beer works for 80+% of random professional acquaintances
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