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If robo cooks are truly inexpensive, we could feed a lot more people in need for less money.
by LanceH 7y ago
If robo cooks are truly inexpensive, we could feed a lot more people in need for less money.
- test6554 7y agoPeople are a lot like stray cats in that the more you feed them and house them, the more of them you have eventually. At some point, before we are all underwater, we are going to need to have a fertility discussion.
- chillwaves 7y agoLong before you tell people they do not have a right to live, you will want to address consumption. Poor people are not consuming as much as rich.
- mschuster91 7y agoNo, quite the other way around: the wealthier a country gets, the less kids are born as parents don't need as many of them to reproduce successfully. In fact this trend is so strong that countries like Japan or Germany are facing a really massive demographic problem as the working population shrinks over the next decades.
- pmontra 7y agoIMHO the reason is that in rich societies people has many possible activities to perform. They feel that parenting kids is not one of the most attractive ways to spend their time on. Furthermore raising kids cost more in rich countries than in poor ones, so they can't afford as many as their parents or grandparents could.
- dredmorbius 7y agoNot in petro states, generally. And you only need one culturally persistent counterexample for this to end badly.
- imtringued 7y agoCooking at home isn't expensive. Robot cooks will probably cost more than your kitchen.
- contingencies 7y agoWe will share them as public infrastructure.
- JetSpiegel 7y agoShould the US Federal Government nationalize McDonald's then? It's already an ambassador for the country anyway.