[ExI] robotic lunch counters

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:03 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:


>  I can imagine we could feed masses of unemployed proles at very low cost
> using a complete protein subsistence meal
>

### Soylent!

As long as the proles have a vote, they'll get more though. Nancy Kress
wrote some nice books about "Beggars and Choosers", where the cognitive
elite (Choosers) owns and runs automated manufacturing and distributes
largesse to unproductive proles (Beggars) who in return vote to keep their
alms-givers in power.

Rafal
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