Given what WeWork charged, you can't convince me there was much subsidy there, nor much social benefit.

"Cool offices" are something that should never even be talked about by a founding team until they have several spare million sitting in the bank. Until then, rent cheap-ass real estate and buy second-hand office furniture. And that's if you even have offices, which you may not need if you're a software and/or services company. Nice laptops, monitors, chairs, Zoom, GitHub, and Google subscriptions are really cheap compared to real estate!