General Discussion

Everyone go watch Soylent Green. I'll wait.

Right now we aren't discussing the whole "convert corpses into food" part of the show, but the schism between the Ultra Rich and the rest of us.

The ultra rich in that movie lived pretty decent lives. They had access to fresh food, housing, whatever luxury goods they wanted, and each ultra rich man's apartment came with a live-in sex partner.

The few people in the "rest of us" that had jobs lived in apartments that make the pictures of Soviet apartments I've seen look lush in comparison.

If you didn't have a job? Dude, you were sleeping in the stairwell, hauling water in jugs and eating nutritionally-balanced crackers that you had to pay for. In the scene at the food distribution point there was a guy selling "Soylent Crumbs" - and was selling it as fast as he could dump it into the bin.

However, this will be worse. In Soylent Green, the ultra rich still had to hire people to drive the garbage trucks, kill off the old people they were going to convert into crackers, etc., etc., etc. With robotics, autonomous vehicles and AI, they won't even have to do that.