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.
not only that, it was cheaper.
individualism is genuinely inefficient and ineffective. I noticed this when driving down Aurora in the passenger seat and gazing upon the rush hour headlights.
all that fuel, all the expensive tires disrupted by shipping delays during the pandemic, all the exploitation tied up in rubber plantations throughout history.
and why? so we can avoid putting a train in a straight line that would resolve the need for 300 of these things in ONE TRAIN? and go FASTER THAN traffic?
To do WHAT, go work at Amazon Nitro North and in between stressfully pretending to work, take expensive lunch breaks at restaurants and buy expensive goods made exploitatively across the street?
all the while you bolster the engine that crushes people and undermines the postal system?
here’s a hot fact for you: the post office used to have banking, and it was pretty beloved.
now everything is cashless (likely as an anti houseless folks measure) and leads to articles about how much of america is “unbanked”
yeah well, I wonder who the fuck did that. I wonder why the fuck emissions are so high, I wonder why we take the hardest path through the easiest problems so we can set up a million parasitic systems that feed off the leakage and exhaust. i’d compare it to bacteria that feeds on sulfuric vents in the dark abyss, but that would be an insult to the bacteria.
I wonder why people would find working in offices isn’t popular anymore, yet working remotely puts all the dysfunction on display so uncomfortably because we’ve never interrogated what office work is or the value it provides. perhaps it’s the trickle down clogged gutter economics of interdependent decade long commercial leases wrapped up in luxury apartment condo schemes driven by a lex luther looking ass warehouse salesman.
how many of your community shops have shut down? how many private medical practices have gone bankrupt or retired leaving a vulnerable clientele in its wake?
we do stupid, wasteful things on purpose because we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas. when people forced to engage with this warn us of the dysfunction, we shush them because we’re hiding from the uncomfortable truth that it’s too big to fail and we don’t want to do the REAL WORK necessary to replace it properly.
we’re living in a multi level marketing scheme inside a pachinko machine.
Places may say that they're cashless for the sake of safety or efficiency, but that's a lie. It's 100% about keeping out people who are sleeping rough.
