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
rome had drive throughs
everyone cooking every meal at home forever is a recent artifact of the nuclear family, and is maintained as an energy tax to check the power and aspirations of labor, as well as more effectively isolating people who cannot easily prepare their own food, like disabled people or homeless people.
humans are supposed to feed each other. that is how we grew up as a species. individualism is a curse.
