If not satire, it neatly summarizes why some people hate silicon valley so much.
while claiming to reduce solitary confinement but actually making it universal as a growth strategy for overpriced nutrient solution is pretty absurd; the question is: is it less absurd than the current strategy?
The problem isn't technical, it's political - nobody gives a shit about the prisoners, and therefore nobody is punishing poor behaviour of the people in charge of prisons. Lowering costs won't do anything other than increase the profit margins of the private prison companies, who will then proceed to figure out ways to cheap out on soylent instead of cheaping out on traditional food.
I hope so. This sounds suspiciously like a plot point during Claremont's run of Fantastic Four which even had Dr. Doom calling such treatment inhuman and monstrous.