[OT] [I mean totally OT] Re: What can you "new"

[Daniel Keep]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>>> I'd bet it takes longer.  Even with incredible knowledge, they'd
>>>> have to build the technology from scratch, starting with improvised
>>>> tools.
>>>
>>> Huh, 99% of the people will be full time engaged just in food
>>> production.
>>
>> Well at some point it was said that a McDuff device provides food.
> 
> McDuff is right. Trying to get enough food to eat has been the bane of
> human existence for essentially our entire existence. The current
> obesity epidemic is a startling anomaly.

Aye... except, of course, for all the people starving to death.

I get the sneaking suspicion that it's less a problem of too much food
and more of too much of the food in too few places.

We seemingly have the same problem with money, too.  :P

  -- Daniel