讓我們重新管理咖啡館！

The arrival of wi-fi and cellphones has been a 2）blight for the traditional 3）haunt of the 4）intellectual， the café. In my favorite café in California it’s impossible to find a seat after 10 AM. 5）Impoverished students buy one drink， then nurse it through 8 hours of internet 6）trolling. To cover the costs of these cyber-squatters， cafés charge 7）outrageous 8）premiums for drinks and food. Their 9）denizens， in response， ever longer nurse their 10）solitary lattés.

How do we reclaim the café for the people？ Since the main 11）commodity cafés sell is not coffee but time， they should charge for time directly. Payment should be for 12）occupancy by the hour. Customers must 13）clock in and 14）clock out. This will allow cafés to 15）correspondingly reduce the price of coffee and food to 16）modest levels. Strangely， in Russia， not where we expect advanced 17）capitalism， this idea has been 18）implemented.

無線網絡和手機的到來讓一貫泡在咖啡館學習的人更加肆無忌憚了。在加利福尼亞的一家我最喜歡的咖啡館里，早上十點以后根本不可能找到座位。窮困的學生們買一杯飲料，然后就連續8小時地耗在那里上網。為了向這些“蹭網者”索取費用，咖啡館會（向顧客）索取驚人的飲料和食物價格。而相應地，這些“蹭網者”就更加會守著一杯拿鐵賴在那里不走。

我們怎么重新管理咖啡館呢？既然咖啡館賣的不是咖啡而是時間，它們就應該直接收取時間的費用，按小時收費。顧客們必須打卡進入打卡離開。這樣就能使咖啡館相應地把咖啡和食物的價格降低到合理的水平。很奇怪，在我們認為沒有高度資本主義化的俄羅斯，這個想法竟然被實現了。