only forbes could write an article titled "Why New Yorkers Voted For Public Grocery Stores, Explained" where the only quoted new yorker is a billionaire grocer with a link to fox news

ffs, please leave your apartment for two seconds and talk to people, literally anyone. a couple of "I'M TIRED OF PAYING OUT THE ASS FOR BREAKFAST" would go a long way but i guess i dunno what i expected from forbes

Grocers and media psychopaths aside I don't really understand why people would think this is such a non-viable idea. It's literally just a store that doesn't need profit. If it makes them feel better maybe there can be a guy who stands at the front that they hand $100 bills to. He can wear a top hat and monocle and pretend he's the owner.

There's a thing that I've come to realize as I've gotten older and older.

More often than not, we never learn the actual deffinition of words or phrases or ideas. We'll hear something in context and understand enough to get through the moment without being confused. But we don't learn enough from the context to know for sure what the thing is.

So we see people getting really hung up over words.

"Profit" is one of these words. It would not surprise me if most people interpret the word to mean nothing more than "making money", as in "revenue". Instead of the more accurate/useful "making more money than was spent in a particular time frame" or "money removed from the entity for non-business use".

Hmm maybe if food supply can be run by state for the benefit of the people, maybe all necessities could be as well?