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2019. Hasn't spawned a billion dollar startup yet. There must be something wrong with the idea, or it'd have been commercialized by now.

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Compared to A Modest Proposal, it's clearly second rate. Everyone knows the elderly are less nutritious than the young.

Better nutrition is a critical element of making a better future.

I'd be more worried about flavor and texture than nutrition. Old grandmas tend to be tough and chewy.

what kind of barbarian dislikes beef jerky?!?

The young are needed for slave labor and click farming, and you have to feed them something. Real food is for the rich.

"We need their small fingers for certain tasks."

I think this topic shifted from the realm of Satirical hypothesis into the real world about six months after is was published.

Sacrifice the elders to the gods of the Economy!

Hail residential care!

Yes. It's called the "acceptable losses" approach to COVID.[1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/11/28/covid-who-i...

[2] https://philadelphiaweekly.com/as-the-cdc-removes-mandates-w...

Bits are hard. As I understand it they are working to get regulatory approval in Canada, The Netherlands and China, where the some baseline sources have been established.

Maybe we can sell it as a way to turn granny into a NFT?

Last year some crypto-douche destroyed a Frida Kahlo artwork to turn it into an NFT:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/aken7k/rida-kahlo-nft-mexico

Mulching people for NFTs is the logical next step. Surely Andreessen Horowitz would fund the startup that gives grandma an eternal life as a web3 token while also contributing to solving the world’s food problem.

Even if there is artistical merit to his performance, it is in poor taste, as using another artist’s work as-is as a part of a new artwork is generally frowned upon.

Minting NFTs off the original is straight up thievery.

How about a person's genome encoded as an NFT?

It lacks an adequate delivery system and recurring revenues. If we could construct some sort of machine to conveniently squeeze the slurry out of the packaging to spare our consumers the hassle you'd really be unto something.

Top shelf industrial design. No funny business: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ

Ukranian scientists are utilizing this technique to fertilize crops around Bakhmut with Russian-sourced organic slurry.

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