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by theRhino 4302 days ago
see prev hacker news item - http://miter.mit.edu/the-unexotic-underclass/

lets solve some real problems?

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"How to feed yourself" is kind of the king of all real problems.

Currently this is being marketed at people with money, but research into indoor / vertical farming is definitely attacking a real problem.

straw man..
I had an idea for a Wicker Man parody where people who worship fallacies burnt people alive in a giant straw man.

Do you think there might be funding available?

That's funny because reading Unexotic Underclass, I immediately wondered if people could eventually dedicate areas of their property to growing food or insects automatically. Energy may become cheap enough, and time is the same for all of us.
Yes indeed. In the discussion following that thread, I pointed out people don't need money as much as they need land on which to grow, fish, hunt, etc.

This is a decent example of this, although the style that it's being implemented is more for bourgeous effect than helping everyday families.