The PhD Is a Lie, Not a Bug

Ren: The PhD is to be implemented both by government compulsion and by handing over the food production and distribution process to giant corporate entities intertwined with the government. To aid control, much work is being done on new foods, supposedly sustainable, but actually demanding huge amounts of inputs such as lab-grown meat, fake meat, and insect proteins. I don't think there are more aspirational plans requiring new technology are going to happen, because we have passed technological apogee and are moving backward.