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Originally Posted by Minte
Rent Soylent Green... Potatoe - Potato Problems with different names are still problems. There are things for people to do. They have to actually want to do something.
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Soylent Green was a warning, not a prediction.
Society has always been segmented into the 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' When the number of haves is going to become very tiny (though how much they will have grows exponentially) and many of the have-nots will be hard working capable extra people simply not needed by society any longer, it is in the interest of the haves to keep the have-nots comfortable enough. A 'Let them eat cake' approach usually results in the many have-nots beheading the few haves.
Watching people try to avoid providing poor people with at least as much as prisons provide inmates (basic food, shelter, clothing, health care) is like watching the NFL have a labor dispute with referees over what reportedly amounted to $60,000 per team.
