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The World Is a Mess. We Need Fully Automated Luxury Communism.
NY Times ^ | June 11, 2019 | Aaron Bastani

Posted on 06/11/2019 9:14:46 AM PDT by C19fan

It starts with a burger.

In 2008 a Dutch professor named Mark Post presented the proof of concept for what he called “cultured meat.” Five years later, in a London TV studio, Mr. Post and his colleagues ate a burger they had grown from animal cells in a laboratory. Secretly funded by Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, the journey from petri dish to plate had cost $325,000 — making theirs the most expensive meal in history. Fortunately, the results were promising: Hanni Rützler, a nutrition scientist, concluded that the patty was “close to meat but not as juicy.” The next question was whether this breakthrough could be made cheaper. Much cheaper.

The first “cultured beef” burgers are likely to enter the market next year, at approximately $50 each. But that won’t last long. Within a decade they will probably be more affordable than even the cheapest barbecue staples of today — all for a product that uses fewer resources, produces negligible greenhouse gases and, remarkably, requires no animals to die.

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The author has watched too many episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
1 posted on 06/11/2019 9:14:46 AM PDT by C19fan
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And you wonder why I don't read the New York Times with its parochial and sanctimonious attitude in 2019.
2 posted on 06/11/2019 9:18:46 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: C19fan

Or has taken too much drugs?


3 posted on 06/11/2019 9:19:27 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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I have huge doubts, but no more factory farming would be a blessing.


4 posted on 06/11/2019 9:21:07 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: C19fan

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.

I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.

I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.

— Richard Brautigan (1967)


5 posted on 06/11/2019 9:21:16 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: C19fan

Communism is evil.


6 posted on 06/11/2019 9:23:22 AM PDT by karnage
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To: Unassuaged
Call me crazy, but maybe, just maybe, food prices would be lower if our government didn't pay some farming businesses to not grow food. Ostensibly it's to help the ma & pa farmers by not letting food prices get too low for their farming business to survive.

But cheaper food prices is, again ostensibly, a goal of the left to help the poor.

7 posted on 06/11/2019 9:26:03 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: C19fan

Does NYT not want us to know that Communism is only good for those at the top, or are they too stupid themselves to know?


8 posted on 06/11/2019 9:30:58 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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The author has watched too many episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Yeah no kidding. Once they lick the obstacles on the replicator why bother going to work at all?


9 posted on 06/11/2019 9:34:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Tell It Right

My objection is moral, not economic.


10 posted on 06/11/2019 9:35:10 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I wondered when we find out Captain Picard has a brother who runs the family winery how he sells his real wine when people do not have money.


11 posted on 06/11/2019 9:38:39 AM PDT by C19fan
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I once had a Professor that said the only way Communism will ever work is if we get to a point technologically where nothing has any value anymore, basically like the replicator on Star Trek, you hit a button and anything you want materializes in front of you.

Personally I don't think it would work even then, it's simply against human nature. If it came to that point, people would compete over who had the biggest, fastest replicator or who could materialize the nicest house and clothes.

12 posted on 06/11/2019 9:39:39 AM PDT by apillar
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Anyone who espouses communism believes they will be “at the top”, or such an accomplice that those at the top will ensure they will never have to live like the masses.


13 posted on 06/11/2019 9:40:17 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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There are always things that cannot be replicated. Star Trek is filled with them. For example, Captain Kirk’s high rise apartment overlooking SF Bay, an original edition of “Tale of Two Cities”, Romulan ale, a signed baseball, etc. One still needs a price and monetary system to determine how these items get distributed.


14 posted on 06/11/2019 9:43:03 AM PDT by C19fan
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Paid for by the ....... rich? Who won’t be around after their money is taken, then back to being enslaved.


15 posted on 06/11/2019 9:44:12 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

"A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free"

16 posted on 06/11/2019 9:47:58 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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Throw in some maggots, crickets and inchworms too. For added flavor. Then eat the concoction, you f****** hypocrites! instead of eating caviar and fillet mignon, you filthy slobs! I’ll eat what I like.


17 posted on 06/11/2019 9:49:41 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam, not a religion, a totalitarian political ideology aiming for world domination. -Wilders)
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Communism only leads to starvation and death.
Read these for the REAL TRUTH about Communism !
18 posted on 06/11/2019 9:51:01 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: jeffc

Yes, elite get chemical burger.

Workers get chemical potato. (When available, according to five year plan.)


19 posted on 06/11/2019 9:51:32 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: C19fan

This ‘technology’ is essentially just cell culture - which has been around for a long, long, time. They are culturing myoblasts. It takes a whole lot of myoblasts to make a hamburger.. This requires lots of culture media, probably a variety of growth factors, and at the end of the day I would want a very, very extensive characterization of what’s in this before considering eating it. That said, it could work.


20 posted on 06/11/2019 9:52:13 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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