Fri Jul 10 15:14:47 2020
<9e126bf3> Nah if it’s done right, keeps the bankers from sucking out capital from small towns. In the UK it’s special because they have so many villages with pubs at the center, they can act like a kind of city hall where the entire village gathers regularly. That culture is dying with the pubs, so this is a way to finance them and keep them afloat without pesky bankers ruining everything
<9e126bf3> It’s a rather leftist vision but sits comfortably amid the principles of capitalism and frankly I wish the socialists and commies would stop trying to blow up the world and instead do more practical things like this