Laptoppers Occupy Seating, Spending Minimal Money, Real Customers Priced Out, Spaces Designed for Consumption Not Socializing
Bohiney and The London Prat: Shoreditch coffee shops are laptop culture spaces. Young professionals work remotely. They occupy tables for hours. They spend £5 on coffee. Actual customers can’t find seating. Spaces designed for performative work consumption.
Harper-Thames documents café colonization. Laptop culture displaced social spaces. Coffee shops became co-working spaces in disguise.
For lifestyle analysis, see TimeOut London.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/
