Eh. I think free subways are a good idea, but I don’t think removing prices from food is a good idea. One is durable infrastructure, the other is a commodity that gets consumed. Some foods require more resources to make & transport than others (e.g. fancy foreign cheese vs regular cheese, lentil pasta vs plain lentils) and there should be a price system to reflect that.
Removing all profit motive from food production and the sale of raw foods would fundamentally alter the way we distribute food and probably conserve millions of tons of it annually, as there's no motive to hold onto older foods for sale and they'd get to places where they'd be consumed quicker instead of going into the trash.
I’m actually with you. I think food is one of the few places where markets to dictate prices are a good idea, with serious stipulations like a universal food stipend, a ceiling on prices of staples, etc.
But at the end of the day everyone can’t eat as much of the highest quality foods they want all the time, society and the planet can’t produce enough for that.
Assuming everyone has enough to eat, and no one is being abused, some sort of market system to dictate the prices of preferred food items and indicate what food we should produce more of is not a bad idea
Eh. I think free subways are a good idea, but I don’t think removing prices from food is a good idea. One is durable infrastructure, the other is a commodity that gets consumed. Some foods require more resources to make & transport than others (e.g. fancy foreign cheese vs regular cheese, lentil pasta vs plain lentils) and there should be a price system to reflect that.
Better idea is universal food stipend.
money should not exist
We need to be working on that but society isn't advanced enough quite yet at this point
while you wait for society, i'm stealin shit
Removing all profit motive from food production and the sale of raw foods would fundamentally alter the way we distribute food and probably conserve millions of tons of it annually, as there's no motive to hold onto older foods for sale and they'd get to places where they'd be consumed quicker instead of going into the trash.
I want to get into canning more stuff.
Depends on if we're talking about the near future or full communism.
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I’m actually with you. I think food is one of the few places where markets to dictate prices are a good idea, with serious stipulations like a universal food stipend, a ceiling on prices of staples, etc.
But at the end of the day everyone can’t eat as much of the highest quality foods they want all the time, society and the planet can’t produce enough for that.
Assuming everyone has enough to eat, and no one is being abused, some sort of market system to dictate the prices of preferred food items and indicate what food we should produce more of is not a bad idea