poets in the Soviet Union would take on small jobs like being a janitor
imagine opening an app and you see the local soup kitchen and pet sanctuary as listings
the soup kitchen posted an event for lunch and you hit “volunteer”
you help pack boxes and get a meal
your labor directly benefitted someone
your social credit increases
Surely with the elimination of poverty there wouldn’t be soup kitchens in the same way there are today.
In a way soup kitchens make a lot of sense. Why have 40 people go home and spend an hour making dinner when you can just make one huge dinner for 40 people?
“Go home” being the difference I suppose
i like the idea of community kitchen-cafeterias where chefs rotate in and out of and volunteer. they can use locally harvested foodstuffs when in season or use excess daily overages from the local food distribution stores. just a cool place to hang, eat, and chill when you don’t want to cook or are too tired or it isn’t your thing. you can take home a meal if you want.
You could do a thing that’s a combination of a Soviet Stolovaya and a modern Ghost Kitchen (which I guess is just a Ghost Kitchen with a large cafeteria) where local cooks can trade use of the kitchen space. The problem with Ghost Kitchens is that they’re being used by food delivery apps to undercut restaurants and drive them further out of business, and it’s ultimately self-defeating because the whole business model is unsustainable, but they could be repurposed with a modicum of public financing.
Yeah even Kropotkin proposed that the bulk of cooking would be done in large community kitchens and that families would take the food home and customize it to their taste with like different spices and accoutrements or whatever.
That’s a cool idea for the 1800s but I think we can still have restaurants under communism no?
Not that we should copy everything they did, but the USSR already did this with Stolovaya, which were a lot more than simple soup kitchens.
