The only reason I need a refrigerator, stovetop, microwave, and sink I'd because I couldn't easily feed myself without them. Sure I could eat out every day but that's expensive and not very healthy. All I want is is two filling meals a day and maybe a snack. I already eat shit at work is a quasi cafeteria setting so at home what do I cook? Not well because living in an apartment makes it harder to cook, cooking for a single person is usually impossible because there's so much wasted food that I won't eat while it's fresh because of our buy in bulk culture. But what if every apartment building had a communal kitchen or two where meals were served on a schedule, it would literally set restaurants out of business and that's a good thing. Eating in a communal setting would definitely cut down on obesity and overconsumption. It would also be easier to make the people vegan since nobody can cook for themselves. Also if you ever had to deal with dinner table politics with friends or family that would probably end forever because neighbors and strangers don't want to hear your asinine opinions in everything and might rightfully beat you for saying something ignorant. Obviously no alcohol which would be good for society, no large portions, strict management of food. Oh and it's fucking free.
We should construct new homes with more communal spaces outright. Ideally we will reach a point where everything is communal property. Shared living spaces are nothing new but the renting aspect of it brings out all the negatives.
There's a distinction between private property and personal property. A factory, a shipping depot, an industrial kitchen - these are examples of private property. These are things that should be brought under the democratic control of the workers who operate them. Personal property - like, say, your clothes, toothbrush, mattress, or lucky bowling ball - has existed long before capitalism and it will exist long after it as well.
I defiantly agree, although I think we'll probably still want each apartment to have it's own oven and fridge. At the very least, it makes more sense than keeping your personal leftovers in the walk-in fridge on the ground floor.
Every time I see people talk about creating a bunch of be things under communism I feel like I need to remind them that communism is a new move of production, but it's also not a Luddite ideology and the existing private means of production will be socialized.
Don't need to build a ton of new kitchen infrastructure when you can rely on the old ones and just turn all existing private industrial kitchens/restaurants into communal property. All you have to do is hand control over to the cooks and servers that you've organized.
That user's understanding of communism was more akin to an evangelical protestant who believes all woes will vanish once you make church membership mandatory. No consideration that this is a political/economic project that has to work within the real world, rather than some utopian set of rules that produce "Good People".