mccSep 25, 2025
I love how the public library is a space with power outlets and wifi where you are allowed to simply exist for a period of several hours without spending money
Show threadHTPC NZSep 26, 2025

@mcc seriously, if you're well off please leave the public library spaces & facilities for people who really need it.

At least fairly obvious in #nz It is likely that is the only heated shelter vulnerable get through the day and only place they have access to internet & even access to computing devices.

So rather than free loading & be smug it was paid by your taxes and "entitled" to use it, find somewhere else to spend time and just go to the library when you really need to use it.

Show threadBenjohn

@htpcnz @mcc the lack of libraries is because they are insufficiently utilised and their loss is not mourned enough by voters (usually the wealthy). They don’t get shut and turned in to car parks because they’re too rammed.

It’s also an excellent function of libraries that everyone uses them.

So, this “don’t use it if you can afford not to” take is amazingly terrible, and tremendously harmful.

Sep 26, 2025 at 8:41amWeb