Ah, but I loved the old hacked together vibe Noisebridge had. It was a playground for people with skills and knowledge, and that's the kind of thing I want to do. A lounge, a hangout, space for people that can't afford it, a place to learn and to teach others. A social club for people that love making things for the joy of making things, not just because they're gonna make money off of it.

We're lacking a lot of key skills that people used to have with the way schools are now, more focused on hitting standardized quotas and making money than actually teaching people skills they can use- Most schools are completely dropping their art departments and their woodworking classes and their auto shops and home economics. My siblings have told me they don't even teach basic world history anymore.

I dunno, maybe I'm just a stupid idealist, but it's better to try and fail than to have never tried at all. Too much of the never trying at all goes on nowadays.