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.

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    3 years ago

    Seems pretty obvious that this should be like a voluntary thing, have a cafeteria available but also have personal kitchens available for those who want or absolutely need it, like the examples of extreme allergies.

    Also at least some of those suggested benefits are literally just forcing people into a panopticon? Like "You wont get fat cause everyone around you will be judging your every bite" is a pretty fucked up suggestion and also something that doesn't really work today anyways?

    Also also, like objectively you're never going to be able to always have stuff everyone in the building likes, and if you're concerned about food waste you'll be limited in how many dishes you can prepare, and add allergies and cultural restrictions onto that and its gonna be a pretty big mess if the only way for people to get food is through the cafeteria. Just drop the weird social coercion shit and have some kind of personal kitchen available to people and shit gets a lot easier real quick.