> Who exactly is working in those coffee shops? Perhaps high-earning, artisanal baristas who specialize in getting the most out of perfectly-roasted-that-morni

> Who exactly is working in those coffee shops? Perhaps high-earning, artisanal baristas who specialize in getting the most out of perfectly-roasted-that-morning civet-excrement-extracted coffee beans? While I also advocate ultra-high-density (Tokyo is a piker compared to #1 density Manila) cities, I freely admit that rentier dynamics in those settings in capitalist contexts remains an unsatisfactorily-addressed problem, and service workers get hit especially hard.