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Cut to the Chase

I’m totally not trying to take the credit for this idea but I WAS just thinking along similar lines just the other day. I don’t go out to drink but I do go out and Jakob made a really relevant point today:

For people who enjoy socializing, but don’t like getting drunk, there are not a lot of options. In New York, most apartments are small so you can’t really have guests.

What if there were something like a bar: an indoor environment where people could congregate. But instead of expected to buy drinks, you pay for the right to be there. This would simultaneously cut out the two worst things about bars: the alcohol, and the alcohol drinkers.

It would also allow for environments that are drunk-proof. Nice furniture, low volume… You realize that bars and clubs play loud music because it makes sobriety intolerable, right? The scary thing is the owners aren’t necessarily aware of why they do it; it could be Darwinian. Only the loud bars survive.