Where is the joke?
I think the point is that this would be nice with no downside.
We’re not allowed to think about nice things, only doom scrolling.
Not every comic needs to be funny.
But it need some story, some kind of conclusions, be it humor, catharsis, a lesson or something else.
It is built up like funny internet comic, but leaves the reader disappointed.It presents an idea and shows it’s consequence. Works well enough for me.
Hey everyone, this guy didn’t get the joke!
Even if no one over-ate there would still be hunger. There is not hunger due to lack of food. It is a deliberate and predictable outcome of our economic system that some people are denied access to it.
Would there be less hunger?
The human population is about 8 billion and our food production capacity is enough to feed 12 billion.
In a capitalist system, food production becomes the means of earning money. This does not imply quality nor suitability. With a lack of a penalty mechanism in place to serve as a feedback mechanism, the distribution networks are primed to deliver and waste rather than ensure equitable supply.
Even with 0% food waste on the plate, loss due to corporate policies is still staggeringly high.
What?
i’m just thinking of how much personal information they would need to collect for this to be anywhere near working.
Hmm… Okay?
This fucking sucks.
Also if the diet was optimised (much less red meat, and meat in general), imagine how much carbon emissions would reduced.
Honestly, if we just stopped meat production that would pretty much be it for emission reductions from diet. Plant-based stuff is so efficient by comparison it hardly even matters.
With slow progress, such as starting with beef: the ‘steak dinner’ needs to gradually disappear. Or we get to a point with lab grown meat that it becomes indistinguishable, and real meat becomes the black market meal of the filthy rich, or the disgust of eating a real living animal becomes strong in the mindset of the people.
Disclaimer: I do eat meat but I do make a point of not eating beef and pork dishes if I can.
This would be immediately spun into
“World food sales down 40%, grocery stores in shambles, Wendy’s files for bankruptcy despite having $20B in liquid cash”
Corrupt politicians remove regulations after lobbying. That would be a silly alternative univ… oh shit.
It’s the “perfect amount of food” but nobody said anything about the taste.
This implies that waiters are the root of all evil.
How dare cooks make plenty of the yum yum for my tum tum when I ask them to.
I get the good sentiment but remember overweight can be not a problem of finishing your meal and wanting another. There are myriads of factors, sometimes (many more than tought IMO) your genes are just coded to be wide that’s it you can look overweight and go to the doctor to get all health tests and they return healthy. You can also have conditions that make you overweight like hypotiroidism. Your body shape does not define your health there is science for that. There is loads of thin ppl with cholesterol and heart problems out there…
People can get overweight from photosynthesis?
