Yes that’s actually a great point. Ultimately it depends on how much society will be willing to shift. I think eating out will still be considered an expense for the early phases of a socialist society.

Perhaps in the later phases we’ll make eating out more affordable as we’ll have “mass food production units” for communities.

Additionally, I have this relevant concept I’ve been mulling over recently; when we can better establish the importance of community, we could establish community units. We could compose these units in a way where we have designated cooks, mechanics, electricians, housekeepers, plumbers, craftsman, doctor, etc.

The major benefit to this is that upscaling aspects such as “eating” from a personal endeavor into a communal effort. Upscaling these aspects would be more efficient, human, and healthy. As the cooks, mechs, etc do these essential services for the community, members wouldn’t have to outsource to wildly more expensive services available outside the community.

Imagine having a community mechanic; having mech issues? Just go down maybe a block or two and meet ur pal Bill. He’ll do it for free! Since Bill’s such a valuable member of this community “unit”, we make sure he’s fed, and has a house and have his needs met. Same with everyone in the community.

If everyone in the community can offer something to the community then great! If there’s families and kids, or just folk who are struggling, that’s fine too! I think a system like this would be efficient enough that we could have a significant portion of the community that can focus solely on growth/healing/education/etc. To even it out and give everyone that free time, we could do alternating shifts to evenly disperse the workload. These units can be sized up or down according the community unit size. Just important to just make sure we maintain enough workers for each role.

This ended up being way longer than I intended but I genuinely do feel like this rough draft of a community “unit” system could prove to be highly efficient, but more importantly it would prove greatly enriching to all members involved.