in the 1990s i read and watched a lot of sci-fi / speculative fiction dystopian futures, that was then not here yet. winston in george orwell's 1984 talked about how chocolates in his childhood tasted better. soon after that the news, printed newspaper back then, herald a new innovative chocolate that won't melt in our hands -- that was when they started using palm oil instead of cocoa butter, the irony is that now we'll have to miss palm oil as it's not as bad as canola oil, sunflower oil, which go rancid more easily, needed more hexane to be chemically extracted. in the 1980s global population was around 4 billion, now it's 8 billion, and the population explosion in our first world countries is worse by ratio, more than doubled. so we got more mouths and less land to grow food and to live on as the rich also start to hog more, we have new feudalism, landlords and landless serfs. we don't need to be legally bound to the land when 15-minute-cities are designed to keep rentpayers and cheap labour in one place.
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