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What's an aspect of life that's currently done privately that you think should be communalized? (lemmy.ml)

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A lot of the things we do on a daily or weekly basis have ways of doing them that can either be private or communal, some of these which we do not think to consider as having that characteristic.

For example, bathing in the Roman Empire used to be communal, but then Rome fell and citizens in the splinter countries began taking baths privately.

Receiving mail is another example. There are countries which don’t have mailboxes and everyone gets their mail at the post office in the PO boxes. It was the United States which pioneered the idea of the modern mail system, which is why we associate it as a private act.

There are activities as well which don’t have any history as jumping between one or the other that might benefit from it, for example I think towns might benefit if internet was free and freely accessible but only at the local library.

What’s a non-communal aspect of life you think should be communal?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Any necessity of life.
Any inelastic commodity.

Edit:
Upon rereading, I totally missed the spirit in which the question was asked. Whoops lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Sex :(

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Energy, public transport, postal service We're never going to have progress if they have a stake in not doing that

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Your mom. Where you going hear me out.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Grocery stores

They shouldn't be stores at all since that's putting prices on necessary food for living.

I work at one and am constantly appalled at the prices for basic food items like canned tuna or pasta (not even the "good" stuff, just the run of the mill "well, it's ____")

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Funny mentioning the mail thing in the US... I've never had a singular mailbox and I've lived in California my whole life. Always had a communal mailbox somewhere in the neighborhood (or my apartment now) where everyone's mailbox is in like a big bank of boxes.

I kinda hate it. Mostly because the neighborhood Karen would always be at the thing and always had some shit to say to me, even when I was a little-ass kid.

I always wished we had community baths though. Seems like everywhere else in the world does that except us. Definitely would be cooler to normalize being naked around strangers.

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