[ExI] powerful image

[SR Ballard]

Addition of money allows for grocery delivery. If something like Shipt could accept food stamps + waive delivery fee (bill govt instead) then I think that whole issue would be basically solved. 

> On Jun 16, 2020, at 9:52 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
> Subject: Re: [ExI] powerful image
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>> On 15/06/2020 18:25, spike wrote:
>> ... England, where there was a big BLM rally in London.
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>> ...What I don't understand is, why?
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>> ...So I don't understand the need, or the point, of such a rally in London.
> 
> They are hardly going to change anyone's mind, or introduce a startling new
> viewpoint, as everyone here already agrees with them.
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> Ben Zaiboc
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> Hi Ben, everyone in the US would agree with them too, if BLM manages to
> distance themselves from the rioters and anarchists.  Their biggest problem
> at the moment is that the other groups are taking advantage of BLM.
> 
> This rioting is going to cause all manner of problems:
> 
> https://twitter.com/i/status/1272359799028514816
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> It really has me thinking of ways to deal, such as reviving a lot of
> food-processing "technology" that has been lost over the decades of
> progress.  I remember visiting on my great grandmother's farm back in the
> 60s and early 70s.  She lived out there with her daughter.  The nearest
> grocery store was about half an hour away by car.  They did a lot of
> preserving and food processing out there, skills people don't generally have
> today.
> 
> But what if... rioting causes food deserts in some of the bigger cities and
> the insurance company decides to pull out, so they never restore the local
> outlets.  The building owner decides to just leave everything as is, for a
> bitter reminder to the community: turn off the electricity and walk away
> from it.  Soon the nearest grocery store might be half an hour drive away,
> but now there are a million families that need it rather than my great
> grandmother's community which had about 50 families, all of which had (and
> used) the ability to go two weeks between trips there.
> 
> We have kicked around the idea of a minimum basic income, OK sure.  But that
> doesn't do any good if there is no place left to trade the cash for basic
> supplies.
> 
> spike
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