it's fucked up that our communal eating spaces have higher prices than everyone having to do that at home at cost to their ability to do anything else. what a waste. food is one of the few things that scales extremely well per district in cities. individual household kitchens mean stove in every kitchen, microwave in every kitchen, oven in every kitchen, pans, utensils, appliances all mostly idle even if they're used weekly.
some people want that but it seems absurd as the default if we actually care
this isn't even historically normal, it's just more fallout from colonial-frontier and nuclear-family mindsets
