I have been thinking about how groceries can be requested and distributed in a world that is not a capitalist hellscape. The shelves of contemporary supermarkets while nice feel like advertisement spots and the way they are stocked seems wasteful just to give an impression of abundance and prosperity.
While in person stores in some shape or form will always continue to exist, I love the idea of online services like BigBasket in India being set up as a public utility. It’s an online storefront where you buy groceries. They have a delivery truck that goes to certain neighborhoods once everyday and drop off the goods. It should be great for at least the staples.
Of course bigbasket have not branched out to a slave summoning app where you purchase can be delivered to you within 15 minutes but I like the original idea.
I have been thinking about how groceries can be requested and distributed in a world that is not a capitalist hellscape.
Universal Basic Services and then nationalize food delivery apps through the USPS. Hell, you could nationalize basically all of our infrastructure and turn it from a capitalist one into a not-capitalist one overnight. They’re internally already socialist economies anyway.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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Regular
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Deluxe
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Budget Brand
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Whole Foods Select
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Fiji Brand Chickpea (not from Fiji and technically not a chickpea but does somehow both ruthlessly exploit foreign laborers and generate ten times its weight in carbon emissions; promises to cure cancer)
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A single novelty supersized chickpea that sits in a display case and never actually gets sold but kids love to look at.
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I wish I could move to Cuba.
Real talk why don’t we have food pills yet? Hell, we don’t even have a human equivalent of dog food where you can just eat it and nothing else. I don’t want to put any level of thought into fulfilling my animalistic obligations, I don’t even like that I have them in the first place.
Because we actually don’t know what the “ideal diet” is for humans. Or pets in fact. Pets get several health issues from eating kibble their whole life.
If we did the same for people we’d die at 50 from kidney cancer or something.
I think we actually figured out there is NOT a singular “ideal diet” because different people have different needs
I get that but you can’t even get close. I looked around me and all meal replacements are severely deficient in things we know that we need. Besides, how’s it any different to the current situation where everything we eat has to be fortified because it lacks nutrients? Just cut out the middle man and give us the nutrients directly. EDIT: I know it’s not your fault I’m just frustrated at the contradictions of it all.
Besides, how’s it any different to the current situation where everything we eat has to be fortified because it lacks nutrients?
A billion-dollar industry that would like to stay that way and of course the :up-yours-woke-moralists:
It’s pretty telling how the closest we’ve ever gotten was a bazinga-brained startup product laced with dog hair and rat shit ended up being more expensive and literally illegal to sell in my country because it lacks a lot of nutrients capitalism needs to die already 😩
Funny, I was ranting much the same a couple years ago, after getting a cat. She eats couple of vet-recommended dry foods (supposed to be better for the teeth than soft food). And sure as sure it got me wound up. Why can’t we have that? I barely have time to eat in the morning or on lunch break anyway, and most of that stuff is bad for the health in one way or another. Just gimme one of those sci-fi ration packs or something!
Because I like cooking and making different dishes lol. Cooking for myself or for friends and family is a great interest of mine. I love travelling and discovering new eating cultures. I’d be severly bummed out by the thought of having to eat what is essentially kibble the rest of my life.
Because psychological needs are valid :p
It should still be a choice, kind of like how you can buy powdered milk that’s way cheaper, keeps forever, and reconstitutes into the same* thing, but literally nobody ever buys it in favor of just getting a jug from the store.
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the process of powderizing it involves heat, so the milk cooks ever so slightly
