You may have heard of third places before, but in case it’s new to you, they’re essentially community spaces where you can chill & socialize…Like here, I suppose! But typically they refer to in-person community spaces.
Does your area of the world still have a number of these, or are they in the decline? Do you know if your in-person communities are trying to establish or renovate theirs to help people connect or reconnect with one another?
As I understand it, any suggestion that anything should be operated without the express goal of generating a profit is “taking a dump on capitalism,” as you put it. Or at least, it is, if the reactionaries who call you a communist when you suggest such a thing are anything to go by.
I’m also going to second another user in this thread and bring up the influence of cars as discussed by Not Just Bikes as a factor that’s at least equally significant.