295: They're People Too - Think Soylent Green

The year is 2022 and the cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution, and global warming have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water, and housing. New York City has a population of 40 million, and only the elite can afford spacious apartments, clean water, and natural food. The homes of the elite are fortified, with security systems and bodyguards for their tenants. Usually, they include concubines (who are referred to as "furniture"). The poor live in squalor, haul water from communal spigots, and eat highly processed wafers: Soylent Red, Soylent Yellow, and the latest product, far more flavorful and nutritious, Soylent Green. Those who are shaken by the truth that the world has gone to hell, can "return to the home of God" and enjoy the benefits of assisted suicide at a government clinic. But alas, we discover that human bodies from the government euthanasia center are taken to a waste disposal plant where we witness human corpses being processed and turned into Soylent Green. What is the real equivalent of Soylent Green? Let's crypto dance through this world, step by step, inch by inch, setting the stage for another episode of The Paul Truesdell Podcast, Two Pauls in a Pod.