Internet users are mocking the creators of a socialist experiment gone awry after an “anti-capitalist” cafe was forced to close down after one year.Gabriel Sims-Fewer, who refers to himself as “a white, cisgender, queer man”, opened The Anarchist coffee shop in Toronto last year based on his hatred for capitalism. He offered a “pay what you can” pricing model to accommodate the “working class”.&nbsp;“I hate how everything in specialty coffee is so inaccessible to working class people, and inhospitable to everyone but the white upper middle class,” Sims-Fewer&nbsp;<a href="https://theanarchist.ca/faqs">wrote</a> on the shop’s website. “That’s also why I continue to scrutinise my prices and look for opportunities to lower them. Maybe when the shop has a couple more workers, allowing us to make significantly more drinks per day, we’ll be able to do an across-the-board price cut.”Those workers, Sims-Fewer explained, must have a certain color, sport certain genitalia, and be disoriented about gender.“The best thing I think I can do is hire people who aren’t white, cisgender, heterosexual men, make them equal owners, and follow their lead in making the place less white-male-centered than the industry standard,” he had remarked. “That’s what I’m working towards.”<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">This new cafe in Toronto is proudly anti-capitalist ☕️ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Toronto?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Toronto</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TorontoCafe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TorontoCafe</a> <a href="https://t.co/5yPvwyIR0Q">pic.twitter.com/5yPvwyIR0Q</a>— blogTO (@blogTO) <a href="https://twitter.com/blogTO/status/1528838175891681280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>But in an angry notice recently posted to the website, Sims-Fewer blamed capitalists for the fact that The Anarchist will close on May 30th:“It's been an amazing experience, connecting with so many great community members, sparking desperately needed debate, raising the blood pressure of Conservatives (that includes you, ‘anarcho-capitalists and ‘Libertarians’), fulfilling the dream of most service workers by not having to tolerate the presence of professional class-traitors (pigs and military), and experimenting with living and working in ways that don't enthusiastically embrace the pure misanthropy of Capitalism. 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.”“F*** the rich. F*** the police. F*** the state. F*** the colonial death camp we call ‘Canada.’ Solidarity,” he concluded.During the pandemic, Sims-Fewer&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CamzEyiONqY/%5C">joined</a> the government in imposing a vaccine mandate on diners despite the fact that vaccine mandates disproportionately&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/dc-mayor-shrugs-off-concern-about-unvaccinated-black-students">impact</a> the Black population.Sims-Fewer drew mockery online.“Wait? They’re now out of business? That’s crazy…I thought this was a can’t miss idea,” wrote one netizen on Twitter.“Starting your own business bc you hate capitalism. Nice,” tweeted another.Another wrote: “You know he can only open ‘his own coffee shop’ in a capitalist economy right?”

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