Fuck you no single meal is worth $100

  • Quimby [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    I wouldn't go so far as to say that no single meal is worth $100. I actually think farmers and restaurant workers both tend to be on the underpaid side, and I do think $100 or more would be fair for a meal that required a significant amount of labor, both in the restaurant and up the supply chain.

    To address the inevitable follow up question of, in a more theoretical vein, whether we should expend that much labor on a single meal for a single person, I think the answer is yes, with a caveat. Everyone should get fed before we start spending resources on nice meals. But in a FALGSC society, I do think there's room special/nice things, particularly in moderation. Communism obviously doesn't mean no art or no special stuff. It just means everyone gets a few special things, rather than 5 people getting all the special things, all the time.

    Finally, sorry for taking your meme and getting all serious. But what's more leftist than turning a lighthearted dunk into a diatribe about theory?

    • CoconutOctopus [it/its]
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      3 years ago

      I've put you on the waiting list for a meal at Sisko's Creole Kitchen; if no one cancels, you should be having a very special meal in four months. If you want a preview now, I know some gastronomy hackers who have eaten at Sisko's and reverse-engineered his recipes for home replicator use, but you'll just have to accept that it's just not the same.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I've ways wondered how situations of gross negligence are handled in Trek. Like if a patron at Sisko's Dad's restaurant slipped on an oyster shell and died because Jake was too much of a jerk to clean up do they just let that shit slide?

    • opposide [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      No need for apology I live for this!

      I absolutely agree, but I think $100 for most meals in today’s world that claim to be worth that are not given the main goal of profit over quality