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
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?
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.
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.
what do you mean by social credit?
I would hope that it wouldn’t be ‘the gig economy’, and would rather just be, ‘an ordinary day in life where I do shit in my community because it sounds good to me and because I want to do it’
I mean under socialism all the shitty exploitative stuff that “the gig economy” connotes would ostensibly be irrelevant.
I imagine it’d just be a sector of the work force that uses technology to disseminate info about jobs that need to be done to people who like doing random odd job/temp kind of services.
Based ball how do you get away with this shit
