[Alberta's Child]

Stories like this show the natural progression of an economy where fewer and fewer people are actually involved in any kind of productive work. When that happens, even ordinary, mundane things like preparing breakfast or lunch for your kids gets transformed into a massive bureaucratic undertaking.

For every "free lunch" that is provided to a kid in school, there is an entire industry of food producers and a giant bureaucracy of school employees working to figure out how to get the government to feed the damn kid 35 meals a day.

[Pikachu_Dad]

That’s a lot of daily meals (35)... reflow