one barista has shared an anonymous fragment of their life all from Philippines. every entry is one person describing the shape of their own days — hours of sleep, money, stress, what they actually feel — to be read and weighed by strangers who never know who they are.
asked whether they would trade lives with baristas, 117 strangers have answered. the result is decisively yes — most strangers say they would take this kind of life: 70% would trade, 17% would not, 13% are unsure.
the reactions readers most often leave on baristas' fragments are: enviable, lonely, and meaningful. these tags are picked from a fixed list, so the words above carry the weight that strangers actually placed on them, not anything we paraphrased.