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Because the labor of cooking for 100 people isn't 100x the labor needed to cook for one. In grad school I lived in cooperative housing where one day every other
by jhbadger 11y ago
Because the labor of cooking for 100 people isn't 100x the labor needed to cook for one. In grad school I lived in cooperative housing where one day every other week I had to help cook the evening meal for everyone else and just got to eat the other days. It was far more efficient than cooking every day for myself and far cheaper than restaurants.
- dreamdu5t 11y agoAnd what if you like to eat healthy but the other people like to eat lots of meat and processed food? Communes are great if nobody has mutually exclusive preferences
- nickpinkston 11y agoIn practice, you tend to have people of like-mind coming together and actually syncing preferences closer over time. It's been very efficient in any communal setting I've been in.
- Retra 11y agoSounds like you're hung up on a trivially solved problem for some reason.
- jhbadger 11y agoWe had a vegetarian and a meat entree choice at each meal and the meals were fairly balanced. If there was anything to complain about it was that the food tended to be not highly spiced in order to reach the common denominator. But we had hot sauces and the like so that people could spice things up if they wanted.