Greatest Gonger
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- Joined
- Jan 6, 2020
It depends on where you are, I suppose, but presently a loaf of bread is like 5 dollars at the grocery store near me, and costs me perhaps a dollar to make at home. Not sure the economy of scale is benefitting us anymore. People also didn't commonly have their own oven in their home in ancient rome so the comparison is rather absurd.Bakeries have been an economy of scale since like the Roman Empire because flour isn’t that useful to any but the most dedicated home cooks. There’s a genuine efficiency in cooking bread and stuff at a larger bakery and then selling bread to people at a slight up charge, idk the answer to food insecurity is making poors reinvent the wheel so to speak.
But yeah they shouldn’t be able to buy bottled water with their ration card.
I mentioned the use case in which people will buy super processed food (basically homelessness and no kitchen) even though I essentially agree and I wish SNAP encouraged buying more cheap unprocessed food like eggs and cabbages.
WIC actually does that; WIC is much more selective in what you can buy on it, SNAP is super broad and you can get basically any kind of food with it.