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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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The History of the Kitchenless Apartment

In the US, you had this trend of building kitchenless apartments in so-called apartment hotels. You had a communal kitchen and dining room on the ground floor but not where people joined to cook together. It was like a restaurant in your apartment building and you could go eat there every day or you could even order the meals up to your room if you didn't want to face the other residents. But then what happened in 1917 with the Russian Revolution is that basically the Soviets stole the idea and they introduced the concept of the communal apartment. And it became totally associated with communism.

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