| Comment | Right I'm sorry to comment again but this is a genuine question, can anybody explain to me (including OP) how it lines up that you wanted to run a cafe, as a business, as a socialist project or social enterprise, and yet the staff was volunteers? Because I didn't really realise that was the case until now.
I just don't understand how a space that claims to stand for doing a lot for people in poverty *also* doesn't have any way of paying the people who actually put in the labour to keep it running. Doesn't that essentially mean from the off that the only staff you can 'hire' are either people who are independetly wealthy enough to be able to do an extra job on top for free (which then undermines the principles of the place to an extent) or on the other hand, somewhat exploiting people who *can't* afford to work there for free in lieu of doing paid work?
I just think the whole thing needed a bit more business planning and perhaps contingency worked into it. |
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