Food is incredibly subjective when it comes to taste. If you wan food exactly how you like it then the only way to get it is by cooking it yourself. Also, food allergies.
Organizing and maintaining something like this is a lot of work, making food for yourself whenever you need it instead of whenever you have to do it because of a schedule is preferable for a lot of people, even if they have to do more cooking.
How do you even organize it? Do you exclude people who can't cook? Do they pay money so someone else does it? That's already how it works, professional cooks make food, and then you buy it to eat. You basically reinvented ordering takeout.
That's not why. You can totally make a government-run cafe chain funded from the budget without the profit motive. But, just like with any other program that would benefit only the working class, there's no billions of dollars in profits, so no one is going to lobby this thing into existence. The only way to do this is by having a whole bunch of people with political will, and we don't have that.
Food is incredibly subjective when it comes to taste. If you wan food exactly how you like it then the only way to get it is by cooking it yourself. Also, food allergies.
Organizing and maintaining something like this is a lot of work, making food for yourself whenever you need it instead of whenever you have to do it because of a schedule is preferable for a lot of people, even if they have to do more cooking.
How do you even organize it? Do you exclude people who can't cook? Do they pay money so someone else does it? That's already how it works, professional cooks make food, and then you buy it to eat. You basically reinvented ordering takeout.
This is why the liberal model is dominant.
That's not why. You can totally make a government-run cafe chain funded from the budget without the profit motive. But, just like with any other program that would benefit only the working class, there's no billions of dollars in profits, so no one is going to lobby this thing into existence. The only way to do this is by having a whole bunch of people with political will, and we don't have that.
Well, shit.
We have no choice but to abandon communism.