waiting another day before I unleash my nuclear "individual home food preperation is bourgeois nonsense, under actual socialism we will all eat together in ultra-efficient industrial cafeterias" take
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Yeah, community kitchens were a going to be a key part of our boarding-house-less future until they weren’t. Closest we got was luxury apartments with dumbwaiters.
Stay-at-home wifery has been known to be bullshit for decades yet this specific conclusion about individual meal prep exists despite stay-at-home wifery having been the primary material condition allowing it to exist
sometimes people ask me how i got so many followers and some of it is knowing which take is a sunday take and which take is a monday take and that's a monday take.
Honestly a political party setting up some kind of bar / grill / hall with simple meals subsidized or served at cost would probably win over the youth pretty decisively
drew up plans to turn the 110/10 interchange into a massive 20 lane traffic circle with a drive-by taco stand island in the middle but LA is not interested in fixing the traffic
In the olden days you could go to the Coles cafeteria in Sydney for tasty budget priced meals (and even get your own pot of tea, which seemed to be the height of sophistication)
I would go to the professional cafeteria (20 bucks, sliding scale) where there was a small buffet of well-cooked solid ingredient items, subsidized slightly by the state, and grab a tray, 3-4 times a week.
sounds like Big Caf. and would they mask and sanitize properly? you can't do this with COVID rampant still. you can't have 40 people breathing on your food.
you're making assumptions about how to organize society under a communal model. I don't think they apply here.
for instance, while we use money as the primary medium of exchange, we don't have to. we could simply give people what they need in return for labor that benefits everyone.
Psst... this is extremely similar to the future in Edward Bellamy's 1888 novel "Looking Backward: 2000-1887". The only difference is that his future socialist bourgoisie and working classes had their dinners in pleasant, small neighborhood collectively owned & run restaurants, not cafeterias.
Around 1980 when I was staying for briefly in a hostel in D.C., I introduced some young Australian & French friends to one of the last surviving automats downtown. They were absolutely agog. We had to eat every meal there for days.
I think we literally unironically had that discourse in ‘21. After the revolution, “there will be only restaurants,” was strangely concurrent with, “there will be no restaurants,” IIRC.
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If you hire burrito taxis, you only prolong the existence of capitalism.
in exchange, I expect that we're going to offer/require community work of everyone. that's how you make a truly communal society function at scale.
for instance, while we use money as the primary medium of exchange, we don't have to. we could simply give people what they need in return for labor that benefits everyone.
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