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
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?
What’s the distinction? Large community kitchen serving food, seated indoors, doesn’t sound too dissimilar to a restaurant?
Because it’s this utopian forced social communization thing that just rubs me the wrong way. Like the soviets tried communal kitchens and people hated it.
So much of the fantasizing revolves around us living in twee little smurf villages. I like living in the city. I like having variety in my restaurant options. And why can’t we keep these comforts?
Restaurants work fairly well in Cuba. It’s something you have to apply for and obviously you can only have one. If basic needs are met by welfare, then small business tyrants lose their power and can operate something like a restaurant. After all, some people enjoy going out to dinner and not having to worry about preparing food themselves, I don’t see why that has to change if it’s a sustainable system.
