Okay, I know I acted silly about this, but the fact that there is 1 singular year round roller skating rink in the city of Philadelphia home to 1.6 million people is kinda fucking horrifying when you think about the broader implications of it.
We live in a society without access to third places and those that existed in the past are dying or dead. There aren’t cafes on the corner anymore, they are illegal to open with current US zoning laws, there aren’t cheap movie theaters anymore, skating rinks are dying out, community centers have been getting shut down or under funded for decades, apart from parks and libraries there are literally no places that people can exist in withoutbeing expected to spend money.