There are a handful of startups in the Bay Area that do delivery of whatever the chefs wanted to make that day—Sprig is the one I’m most familiar with. In many cities, there are lots of street vendors and food trucks, that will typically sell either just one thing or a handful of related things. (Think a hot dog vendor.)
It seems to me like this is roughly the world we already live in—if you want to get a pizza delivered, there are people who make lots of pizzas and very little else waiting to send you a pizza. To increase efficiency more we need to be poorer: instead of you deciding that you want pizza, it is decreed that it is Taco Tuesday and everyone is eating tacos. (This is comparable to Hanson’s claim that we could have a lot more things if we had a lot fewer varieties of things.)
Though for some reason, this seems to only work just in some parts of the world: here in Russia even the grocery delivery seems to only be properly implemented in Moscow.
There are a handful of startups in the Bay Area that do delivery of whatever the chefs wanted to make that day—Sprig is the one I’m most familiar with. In many cities, there are lots of street vendors and food trucks, that will typically sell either just one thing or a handful of related things. (Think a hot dog vendor.)
It seems to me like this is roughly the world we already live in—if you want to get a pizza delivered, there are people who make lots of pizzas and very little else waiting to send you a pizza. To increase efficiency more we need to be poorer: instead of you deciding that you want pizza, it is decreed that it is Taco Tuesday and everyone is eating tacos. (This is comparable to Hanson’s claim that we could have a lot more things if we had a lot fewer varieties of things.)
There’s also SpoonRocket.
Though for some reason, this seems to only work just in some parts of the world: here in Russia even the grocery delivery seems to only be properly implemented in Moscow.