# On Food in Federation History ## By Gerhard Culbreth of the University of Calgar @ the Jewel of The United Federation of Earth last updated 83395 Hello and welcome everyone. I am professor Gerhard Culbreth of the university. Of. It's embarrassing when you forget to go to university for a moment. The University of Calgary on, of course, the wonderful jewel that is earth of our great federation. In today's lecture, I will be discussing the importance of food to federation history, and I'll be focusing on it from several different angles. I'll be considering it. From a legal. Angle from political angle from an economic angle, from better military angle at times. I can't, of course, get too in depth here. This has to be a relatively short lecture. I was only granted. 45 minutes at. Most and really they prefer it to keep to about 30. So let's see what I can do in that time to get this discussion going and at least prime some ideas. Without further ado, I'm going to dive right in. Food in the federation is perhaps the most important thing to its history. The word drive is great. The word drive is essential. Political developments are important, but you can't really understand the development of the first federation without consulting and considering the importance of food to it. Transformation. You can look at the magisterial biography of the 10 greatest and most important people in Federation history were the absolutely wonderful book as much as it is. On the life of mega. Focusing on the initial developments of the federation, especially in its early sections. But really, if you consult any of the major sources or primary sources available for this period. What? You immediately come away. With is the absolute essentiality of food. Food really is just. The most important thing the federation at this. Moment, the Third World War. The augment. War before it. And with the soul were after it. But really, even though in between the Third World War and the Soul War. That period. That period created food scarcity, widespread war, nuclear disaster, the destruction of the United States. In many ways the destruction. Of Europe, the crippling of. Africa, the depopulating of the entire eastern world. Fundamentally. This planet, which was the majority population. Of land and the. Whole of the federation at this. Time effectively, besides the handful of colonies. In the asteroid belt was scattering of other places. Earth was the. Only place they had. And. It just lost most of its farmers, most of its food supply, and. Most of its arable. Land is ruined. This is why the patrician class develops. This is why the federation economy and really the federation as a government and institution, grows out of the essentiality of food and effectively the federation saying we need to secure food for our soldiers. We need to secure other resources for our soldiers. The best way for us to do that during this war is to effectively command the economy and allocate resources as best as we can, and that failed fairly quickly, and then it moved towards we need to use market mechanisms to influence directions for what we want. By essentially rewarding people and setting market prices ourselves for allowing the market to work out many of its own internal solutions and the federation market develops through this unique federation. Citizenship develops, yada yada yada. The traditional history of the First Federation's formation. Food is the core though, and food is the core of that formation and of the period after the Third World War. And even into. The soul war. Because fundamentally there wasn't enough of it for much of this time. So the question was how would we get more of it? Do we build space stations where we can grow food? Do we do internal agriculture and the environment on Earth was just in chaos, it was in ruins. It was untenable to produce food there for the vast majority of people, and So what food there was, the state was massively intervening to try and ensure there were best allocations. But. There were limitations on this. This is the. This is the foundation of the federation. This is the very basis. This is why it's not even in federation rights law that is actually in the first Federation Bill of Rights that migrant passes. The fundamental right to food is one of the initial rights granted in essentially all the core documents. It's not even a right. Granted, it's not, it's not legislated, it's every person. Who worked for the federal government? Yes, there may have been. Periods where they did without food. Because supply chains were ruined, there were practical, real concerns. But the assumption was throughout most of the Third World War, if you were working with the government, if you were part of the war, you were fed, the only question was how do we organize that when the war ended and most of the world lay in ruins and we were the vast majority of what was left of Earth's population? 3.5 billion people, when roughly 2 billion of them are not part of the war economy, are not part of the government, are part of industries that have been ruined and destroyed and relegated. And through the war and all the chaos of it, internal economies have just gone to **** and. Effectively, the federation has to start massively expanding the hand it has in internal markets, and this leads to the consolidation of power and large disputes between national governments who are at one level trying to work out their own food policies and the federal government, which has a consistent obligation to its people to deliver food to them. And so the question of how are these conflicting obligations get resolved is that eventually a return to federation has kept overpowering the nations and has angered the nations greatly. That's very true, but at the same time, the federation was consistent that. Look, we will open up. A farm in central Canada. We will go to a place like Saskatchewan, Central Saskatchewan. And we will do whatever we need to do to build out farming there. We'll build out whatever farming we can because this is farmable land, that, yes, it may not have the great. Returns that Europe used to have. But Europe is bombed to **** and irradiated. This isn't this. Can grow food. So we're gonna put troops around our farm here. That we're gonna pay. We're gonna put farmers on that land to work, and we're gonna set up management to operate, and we're gonna bring in resources to run it. We're gonna build a warehouse. We're going. To do everything we can. And overtime, as this place develops, it will supply food we will bring in a ship, it will land. We'll land a plan there and we'll fill it up with food. A plane. Was a old. Term for kind of like a shuttle that would just. Fly within a planet, but they would. Land their planes there. Fill them up with food and then find us where to drop the food off. And the calling. Would have to continue its farming plans. And they are protected from outsiders who tried to raid them by federal troops and resources. They needed to be brought in from the federal market, and for this reason there was a small management class, which is the federation kept around to essentially integrate the thing into the whole federation and keep the federation operating. In many ways, it was quite akin to communism, but effectively the federal government said. Look. We. You got to be. The federation government said, look, we get to be the thing doing this and we could deploy the resources and we're going to keep your countries, which are full of starving, sad people. Essentially, whenever we set up a new farm, we have free pools of labour. We'll just pull people out of this area here. And because we can promise them food and we'll deliver it. Will overtime the food credits, which were the core of the federation economy, because fundamentally at the end of the day internally the federation. After the Third World War. During the third world. War there were. Two commitments we must win the war. So we need to supply whatever is necessary to do. That and if you work. For us, we'll give you food. We're working for us and we give you food. That's. Necessary for us to. Win the war so that is. Our most fundamental commitment. After the war, it was being prepared. For the next. War. So we need to maintain our. Commitment that if. You work for us, will give you food. Need to monopolize food effectively, or if not monopolize it, at least secure a stable control over it. Because once the federation. Had secured that. Which it did quite effectively during the Third world. War. Excuse me? Once the Federation secured food within the planet Earth. Or at least within its own borders, and for the nation states, which have to. Bow down to it. It could then start to. Say, look, we'll trade you X food for this. And eventually that. Develops into well. You won't actually trade you food right now, but we'll trade you a ticket, a credit, or. One meal at. A federation plant. And that credit, that food credit at a federation food clinic because again the federation. Wanted to control as. Much as they. Could. Eventually became because it promised food too large amounts. People who didn't. Have access to food? It became the new standard. Gold currency. This is the thing we need that can keep us alive. So fundamentally, the federation ruled with this. They ruled with the credit. And it ruled with food. And so working for the federation, which eventually became the foundation of Federation citizenship. The fundamental right associated with it was. That you get food. So as the federation expanded as it starts to develop. Companies these. Yes, they would operate these farms, but eventually it started. To say, why don't we? Let the farmers run the farm and let some management work for the farm. Let them work with running the farm and. Effectively, we will start to develop if you were to say someone in. Let's say you're in Chile and you have you're in a local town and you you come to. The federation, you could say. If you give me food, I. Will get. This iron mine working for you. I will get this steel plant working for you. If you can give me food and if you can supply the steel and if you can supply the. Because I need my, you know, mine or whatever, right or not people. Possibly the steel. But you can supply the iron. That we need to make our plant work. And the fuel to make it work. And the federation says, well, if we give you food credits for your goods, if you're willing to work, we're basically we're willing to trade you. The federal government comes to them and says we're going to do 2 things. We want to give you access to the federation market. And because we have an internal system which ensures a minimum amount of allocation for us to fulfill. The needs we have, which really means. Look, we the federation exists for one main purpose, to build a military. 2 defenders from, you know they're going to attack us. So we need to make sure that when we're doing things like opening a steel mill or an iron plant we. Are going to. Take on a commitment. Uh, the OK. We're going to open iron, we're going to steel. Mill here and we need to get iron. Who we know we can make our well, we notice iron and chili. Let's go find someone in. Chili, who can sell us iron? They will go mountain. Ridge. They find this guy who's? Saying hey, if. You give me food I can get. If you give me food and access. To the federation market. I will be able to and you know. Some upfront food. Credits trade on it to get my founding. Resources. I will be able to deliver to you iron. Now the Federation works out is effectively. So. A loan agreement we will give you X amount of food. Will actually food credits, which you can use to buy food. And. We will give you X. You can use that as credits to buy other resources basically. And we're going to give them to possibly a single individual, possibly to a community. Federations happy to work with whoever could create. An agreement for this. And effectively this is what creates the patrician class. They're the ones who control the food. Because they're the ones. Who say, look, we will go. These will work. Here the mind here. I'm the guy who can do this. I got. The loan I got the food. I've taken on this risk so I may go to the market. I'm going to buy all these resources, I'm going to find laborers in my town and I got you. Go work in that mine and come the first day you'll promise to assign the fair obligation because assigned to it the Federation does is as I. Was saying the layout. We're going to give you expired credits. And in return you have to give us Y of. Whatever we promised you at a base. Minimum. Which the federation then adds to. Their resource pool. And. We're going to start a new project where they're creating a new. Project so for. Example. They're looking at this mine. They go. What? Do we have in the pool? Well, do we have? Enough. No. OK. Do we have the resources available to build up? A supply chain. To begin to build up a. Bit of extra capacity because that's the big thing. The federation is looking for, you know, in. This whole period here they may be. They may be willing. To take on a massive supply chain expansion. But the only real angle they want from it is look if our actual excess goes from zero or negative to we have 15 extra pickaxes in the federation, that's great. If we have 50,000, we have too many and we need to open up a French immediately. But having 15 means that. If we say. We need a change. Here it gives us a foundation to give us a bit to play with it means. We're roughly just. A little bit above equilibrium. In our story. Which is that is. And if our store houses are? A little bit above equilibrium. At or above our equal, there we go. We want to set an equal. Over here a little bit that will be like above 0. For us what we want then, is that everyone beyond us is hopefully able to actually produce, you know, if we have 15 extra pickaxes, not 50,000. The hope is that the difference between 50,000 and 15, the other 49,000 and whatever it is. Or those are pickaxes that? Can go on to a market where. If let's say that money. Went to either an individual patrician or to a group of people in a town, say a group of town shareholders or whatever. If they're getting those. Extra food credits back. The hope is they're going to take them, and once they've amassed enough personal wealth, if they feel secure, they can reinvest it back into the economy. They can take it and go. OK, let's put this into the economy. Let's take these and let's reinvest and let's buy this. This thing, this building, this. We are going. To cash to buy. You know, we have this iron plant here. We have this steel. Melt down there, but we also go. To some coal. Nearby. So we're going to buy more pickaxes than we will buy before we're going to buy out more laborers, and we're going to put them over there. And all of that is rooted in food. And so that meant that the Federation's biggest thing, the reason they. Had to build all of this supply. Was one it had to. Maintain building its. War fleet, but the core of that it had. To maintain building out its food supply. It needed its more fleet. To protect its food supply and to protect itself. So it could. Continue to deliver on its food supply to itself. The food supply was the core. And remains to be the. Core of the federations per day. Now the fundamental. Shift happens around the 2nd to 3rd Federation and. The second federation. I believe it. Is. Being made that the next step you're very confident is the second federation. We see the 1st. Matter. Reconfigure patient devices, not replicators as we know them today, not the. Device we know. But the precursors, the predecessors, they didn't have the multiplicity of functions or the ability to transform and transmute from one resource type to another, say from iron. To copper or to wheat to recompose it. At that chemical level. But what it? Could do is it could convert with. A large enough stockpile of resources. From 1:00 to another. It would have the requisite input elements. That is, it could very easily handle much of the breaking. Down and reformulation. The only question was supplying it and throughout the second federation and the early 3rd federation, this increasingly became a major. Pressure. Because effectively what this had allowed. The federation to do in great quantity. Is when this first comes on the scene. It's invented in the. The second federation during the great transition really is one of the first mass matter transmutations to come online because the goal is if we can grow calorie rich. Is. Substitute for wheat that are very chemically similar or similar to other material food stuffs that we like. But which we. Can grow in the small fleets that we. Have under the conditions we're in, but that. We're able to put. Into these machines and through them. It's able to break them down and reformulate. Into the food we like to eat then. Because at this point in time. In the Proto Second Federation for the second federation. Is really formed but. During the great during in the like. The obligation on the federation that it must supply food. Is absolutely essential. Because for literally all the people who. It's taking with them. It's promising them to preserve its ideal of the federation. For every one of them, it lets it. Dies for every decrease. In people that. It has well. It's like if it suffers population loss, which it did, it did it for periods, but the whole population actually grew during this period. During the whole of. The great journey period, the population of the federation expanded. That is to say. But if you're looking at the question of. Food growth in this period here and you're looking at the second federation or Pro Second Federation discrete journey period. As I've been saying. The people needed to eat because if you let them die, the federation would die. So you have to feed. Them. So this is what started to dry. Would have been sort. Of a late 1st Federation photo technology and idea to deal with the increasing population growth and the lack of jobs, lack of resources, lack of food as every worlds were continuing to disappear and. The question was becoming. Very prevalent a question which Palpatine solution for and the richer solution for was essentially. Kill a lot of people or use magic for the witchers in part, but then also kill a lot of people and that got to be too complicated. And costly and annoying and expensive and just generally undesirable for them. Let large swaths of people die. Because there was no good. Solution exactly when the federation is being forced. To work on. Verse suffered massive population loss to which radar the muscle cells have suffered massive population loss. All of the powers which left suffered heavily until the federation was able to bring these replicators. These early replicators. These transmutations, if you. Will. Online and then start trading them to other partners because this fundamental let them gain access to a food supply. But for the federation it restored. Obligation of we will give you at minimum three meals a day and enough food to survive on that. You need to live, will give you your minimum. Amount of calories. And so the food credit. Shifted slightly to a calorie credit. But it still. Is fundamentally a full credit, which is what the original full credit was, and the fact that we won meal. Worth of food? And this begins to demonstrate that whenever the federation hits a bad point, the fundamental breakdown of its currency goes back to not being fancy money, but to how much food can I get? And can I get one meal with my currency? The worst periods of federation inflation, the worst periods of the 4th Federation of the First Federation of the Second Federation, and even of. The third federation. And would be. Thankfully not seen here in the 5th Federation, but which for example existed during the Imperial Civil War that recently occurred. Just before the Great War. We did see a point where if you convert the current federation credit, which is not technically directly tied to food costs and is not. A food credit. But if you calculate the OR the system, if you use the same formula which is used to calculate the calorie cost for the credit, what we actually saw is that through inflation and destruction of food supply, war costs, labour destruction, etcetera. Just. During that civil war. Effectively, the federation credit went from. Being one credit gets you about 1.3 to 1.7 meals. At present, it's holding safe at 1.6 meals it has for the last 15 years. Per credit, if you use this basis, which again it's not, this is not a type. Two statistic this is just a useful reference point. As the most basic federation economic indicator, that is to say. In the civil war. It reached the point. Of point 0.4. Sorry 0.4. 131 credit. To get you 0.4. Other necessary calories. For one meal in a day, for the average human adult. That was absolutely horrific. The foundation had never been at that point at that time, except in its founding days. The first federation in that period before, during the Third World War, and like and shortly after the First Soul War, but. Besides those periods of time. Only brief periods of the Proto Second Federation that. It reaches low as .5 point 6. Point. Four in that war was. Truly, the horrific low. Thankfully, that period only lasted about five years and the. The driver behind that. There's not so much a supply issue as well supply issue of food, there is to say. But a supply issue of. Currency. The inflationary policies of the. Pro Federation loyalist government. As great as it is. That they won. And I'm very happy they. Did you do not take this critique in the negative member? The inflationary policies. They embark, they embarked on have been regarded by many. Economists of different schools, especially those more on our current political. Right as having. Been deeply destructive to wars. Our economic environment today and are reflected in this food indication value. We can say safely that the massive economic expansion which occurred in the Great War and the massive job creation, and sorry, the tragic loss of life. Always helped to rebalance the economic formula to where, as I said, we've now consistently found at. 1.5 but. When the 5th. Federation started about. 30 to 50 years after the OR what, 20 to 30 years? Sorry. After the Great War, depending on when you want to put it. When the 5th Federation started. We were holding steady at a 1.1 to 1.3 so. I have to commend. Our great leader Goodwin, for everything her economic policies have done up to this point in time, and I apologize for getting so political in this lecture. I just with the enhancement. Of refraction alization of the credit, it's difficult not to comment on the fact that doing this. Is the sort of inflationary policy which was carried out in. That civil war and which led to such horrific action, and which? The government had so carefully avoided for. The last 15 years. So. Appreciate that. Apologies for that off colour land. We're turning back now to the discussion of food prices and the way food packs, things acknowledging that I only have about 20 minutes left at best. The second federation have this. Essentiality of food. And as it began to develop around its remap, its reformat or its matter, reformatting device, which eventually became the third Federation Replicator. There is a. Very heavy materialist account of federation history. Which routes the Replicator invention is really what changes in the third federation that? All of that math population. The fundamental release file for wasn't actually the transformation. The structure of the fleet. Would have been much more terrific. Horrific and unrecoverable had the replicator not come into existence about 2000 years before Dyson became president, and by Dyson's time had become much more popular and widespread, allowing for the massive loss of life and reincorporation of mass expansion of the military and the creation of the federal military and the Lords militaries and their competition. None of that would have been possible without the replicators allowing huge swaths of the population to leave. Factory jobs, farming jobs, trades, jobs. Really. Just any production heavy work that could be offloaded onto replicators overtime free up labour for military service or intellectual service. Putting them into the arts. And it would fundamentally transform the federation economy. Who is the next major economic transformation history? Beyond horror of the Industrial Revolution, yes, there were greatly destructive. Aspects of this but. They put lots of people at their jobs. It ruined the economy for a while, but in the long run it has absolutely liberated us because today. As the reading. Before matter came online. And its demands roll out of primary input goods, as the replicator has come online and become popularized at the third federation. Input goods are still considered essential, but secondary to energy supply. Fundamentally solving that we can create new atoms through. Enough energy and being able to generate that energy and. Being able to. Create those atoms or basically if we have enough pool of atoms we can figure. Them as we need. To, but we could essentially take whatever junk material. We need and produce off of that. This fundamental transformation and replication technology. As developments have made it so that. The economy is just transformed. Food today is a luxury good, which their master vast majority of the federation population gets to indulge in some 97 to 98% of federation citizens eat non replicated food for three. To five of the meals they consume in a day, or if not, meals, food consumption, a day with their total food consumption generally being. About. 6 about 5 to 7 meals a. Day. Or food consumption points. By all Federation polling statistics, replicated meals are seen as great cheap snacks. For. When you're at home. And just want. Something to enjoy. But effectively all Federation citizens from all economic classes, all social backgrounds from everywhere. There's just a federation agreed upon ideal that, yes, well, it's great we have this replicator if you have the chance to eat non replicated food, it is just better. This is completely. Agreed upon by people in the federation. It is a widely studied phenomenon and widely regarded phenomenon. But it demonstrates the. Essentiality of food. Because it keeps every world as an important part of the federation economy in the second federation, agriculture was an important part of the economy because we needed egry goods to feed into the reform matters in the third federation. Every world we're. An important economic source in the first half, for the same reason as the second. And. And the second-half? Because by then, people had gotten so rich that they simply preferred to eat real food or even food that had. Replicated ingredients in it if. It was prepared by a human chef. As opposed to just prepared by the replicator. Having the human do it was seen as preferable. If you could. Get food that was actually grown by people. That was even better. The massive amount of demand for this food has created large sets of economic incentives. Throughout the third federation. That. Developed in the 4th Federation, the ultra wealthy, I mean the people on Earth pure on Earth. It's almost hard to find replicated food. Yes, you may go back to your apartment or your dorm room if you're a student or I guess your house if you're your real apartment. If your lower that you own or your house. Someone truly, truly, of great wealth. And you may have a replicator there. But it's hardly used, it's it's basically untouched because there's so much food, real food being constantly important to Earth. But prices are actually cheap enough that for the most part you can eat every meal at a restaurant prepared to real ingredients, buy a real chef for our grilled chefs and. Real weight staff. And part of that is the. Development of the 4th Federation. And a lot of the chaos in the 4th Federation. Can essentially be rooted in the fact that. If we're taking this materialist account and. We see a third federation. As a fundamental transformation, the 4th Federation is when the economy of this transformation began to break down itself. Yes, it's great. Now everyone doesn't need to be a farmer, but. In the 4th Federation, we struggle with him. But we have all these. People and we have this great safety net, but a lot of people are still falling into traps with it, even with universal basic income. Even with replicators producing cheap food. People get caught up in. The desire of wanting more than people want real food or they escape into the net, and this binary of federation society with the medicines on one side and everyone else. That. On the other. It's the abhorrent underclass of the federation who subsists. Through not even eating. Food, but just getting the necessary nutrients. Pumped right into them while they spend their entire lives living. In cyberspace and the void net and the like, it's. It's horrific. Frankly, I I. Have to be honest, Jerry, I'm sorry for being political. But it just it it it. Or if eyes need to see this to see these people. To see the way they live on this, just plugged into the net, selling their minds out for processing power to companies. And I understand the movements designing to desire to ban the selling of 1's mental processing capacity to companies. I think those movements are mistaken. They misunderstand the importance of economic rights and the federation. But I do have to wonder about the ability of our federation to provide for these Internet addicts. And if perhaps cutting some of the entitlements they have wouldn't be useful because it might just. Horse thumb to actually do something more productive with their lives than just spend all of it browsing the net. Half addicted and 1/2 day sleep selling 80% of their mental processing capacity to some company while they have essentially constant drug induced slumber or just watching their favorite. One shows it's horrific. The means for the. Rest of the federation economy and. Started to add one last point to. This deeply political round. These people still technically count towards Federation statistics, so if one takes into account these people in our entire voting statistics, the federation doesn't. Have a strong middle. Class strong, relatively small upper class and relatively small working class or lower. Class. It has everyone. Underwriting same statistical analysis is placed into. The working class or lower class middle end at. That lower end. Will be considered as part of. The upper class, if we were. To count all of. These mine servants, these netizens, as part of our actual economic statistics, and when you do this, you get absolutely inflated and insane stats or something like 90% of the federation population dating back to 80,000. Years ago, who were so plugged into the net? In some way. Are living on Ubi as a brain in a jar plugged into the Internet? And seemingly have no real access to rates constantly are selling their money to companies just constantly selling it and theoretically have a vote, but are never actually capable of exercising it. Never do exercise it. And fundamentally or. Essentially non people because they don't have the intellectual capacity to be people. And I don't mean that in an offensive way. I mean they have literally sold away the ability in their mind to do anything but have a television show, project it into it, and sit there in a dopamine stupor. So considering the rest of the federation population, the. We consider actually. Productive. In the 4th Federation. The crisis began to emerge of this underclass continuously growing and expanding, and the increasingly common choice of people that drop out into it or changes drop out of activity altogether and just get into the non participation watching of society. But not being part of it. And this is where the crisis of food had fundamentally changed in the federation, because now the question wasn't is there too little food? The Federation's obligation to give food to people is so consistent even throughout the 4th federation that no dictator. To get away with denying that right, none of them could ever really like. It was so unthinkable. It was never even properly attempted, and a handful of times it was. It's worth noting exemptions that when you're fighting a. War and you blockade a plant so. You're not letting food. Get into it. Is fundamentally different in the mind of Federation law and practice, and in history then. Through. Legal right to food, and they consistently fought. For right, even in the. 4th federation. Even when in the darkest times of it. You have periods where the companies have almost all the rights and power where effectively it is the President, the dam and the Chancellor of the House of Business standing together with the largest companies to face off against the Senate and the House of Commons and the Lords. And those companies? Will still lose votes in their own house and face presidential veto for trying to override the right to food to their workers. There is simply no put put. No version of the. Federation, where food is not delivered. In fact, there is. Principally been shown even in the 5th Federation, even in our current economic crisis, where a large chunk of the outer rim is effectively cut. Off from trade. Or effectively, large chunks of various dominion. Are not being able to trade with. Their with the. Rest of other dominions. The rest of the federation market, we're on the whole if we go area by Area, Federation market access is down to as low as 3% in some parts of poor federation dominions. I'm talking places. Like mental death, places like that where there is real actual economic loss that has so crippled these regions that there is no. Recovery for them. At least not right now. The HP reconnected to the market, but that 3% market access, that 3% is food because that's what. The federation will not allow to go away. The federation, if your region is so desperate. It needs food. You can appeal to the Court and. The Federation governor of your. The noble of your. Region. If they do not deliver food to you, you can sue. Them and take them to. Appeals court, after appeal court level after level. And consistently every time this has gotten up to the Supreme Court in the 4th Federation, even during the heights of the worst rulers. You've ever had. Consistently, the answer was no. You must deliver food. You cannot deny food. That is the power of the federation in a lot of ways, and that is the importance of food. To the federation. So I'm not coming up on the end of my time and. The goal of this lecture. Has been to communicate the. Importance of food and federation history. And I hope I've done that. The Replicator is fundamentally transformative because it changes the foodscape, but the importance and essentiality of food doesn't change in the war, even in the Great War, when planets were being destroyed for their food problems. That was an issue. One of the first major crises that Goodman had to deal with the. Pete or Goodman John Goodwin. His first crisis, the first crisis of his goal. Age. We're essentially trying to. Fix the food. Supply not just because, yes, replicators could make food, but the vast majority of Federation citizens, in fact federation statistics considers poverty to be when you have to eat 2 out of three meals from your replicator of the necessary meals. You need to eat a day. The thought of the 5:00 to 8:00, I said earlier, people choose to eat. No, no, no. That's the three meals you have to eat if. Two of those. Come from a replicator. That's the proof. You're in the lowest percentile of working federation people. That is to say, you're in the bottom of the nine. Class hierarchy of the federation. The lower lower class if you're 2 out of three meals from a replicator, think about that. Think about how food rich you have to be to have that as a substitute. No, by the way, it's not that you're missing that third meal. The claim is that that third meal is still being eaten out, being eaten from non replicated. Food sources. So it's not that these people aren't getting their food. The only argument is they aren't getting enough of the good food. And that was John Goodman's crisis. And he resolved that crisis through massive expansions to agricultural areas in various new, not new dominions, but in the dominions of the federation. Massive capital allocations towards allowing expanding those etcetera. The fundamental goal of his regime through much of the Great War was it normalizing food prices and increase in food supply. Indeed, the fact that in the. Great War at. The credits to food ratio that I mentioned earlier actually at 1 moment. The peak of one point. 98 nearly two food meals per credit. Now the Federation has had high as as. High as 12. Meals per credit. That was an exceptional period of the second federation and more in the third federation. There was a few blocks of a couple of centuries where it got. As high as. 8. For regular periods of time. But in the middle of a war? And consistently supply ships were being. As trade routes and access to outer regions, which is factored into this. Calculation of credit ratio by the. Way it are being cut off from access because there's an increasing centralization drive. When all of that is occurring and at the same time, there is still great amounts of food, excess waste being discovered and found and reallocated. It is amazing. With the credit. Reached that level. Now the obvious question is what happened since then? And the answer is after the Great War, we really didn't need the great amount of food capacity we had, and instead we've shifted from trading this food and by extension, having the people do it to trying to expand their existing. Trade us to deal. With our trade volatility issues in. Our economy and look. But that's a problem for a different lecture I know about to run out of time. I'd like to thank you all for listening to this discussion on federation history and the importance of food to it, and I wish you all a great day. [Hello and welcome everyone. I am professor Gerhard Culbreth of the university.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [Of.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [It's embarrassing when you forget to go to university for a moment. The University of Calgary on, of course, the wonderful jewel that is earth of our great federation. In today's lecture, I will be discussing the importance of food to federation history, and I'll be focusing on it from several different angles. I'll be considering it. From a legal. Angle from political angle from an economic angle, from better military angle at times. I can't, of course, get too in depth here. This has to be a relatively short lecture. I was only granted. 45 minutes at. Most and really they prefer it to keep to about 30. So let's see what I can do in that time to get this discussion going and at least prime some ideas. Without further ado, I'm going to dive right in. Food in the federation is perhaps the most important thing to its history. The word drive is great. The word drive is essential. Political developments are important, but you can't really understand the development of the first federation without consulting and considering the importance of food to it. Transformation. You can look at the magisterial biography of the 10 greatest and most important people in Federation history were the absolutely wonderful book as much as it is. On the life of mega. Focusing on the initial developments of the federation, especially in its early sections. But really, if you consult any of the major sources or primary sources available for this period. What? You immediately come away. With is the absolute essentiality of food. Food really is just. The most important thing the federation at this. Moment, the Third World War. The augment. War before it. And with the soul were after it. But really, even though in between the Third World War and the Soul War. That period. That period created food scarcity, widespread war, nuclear disaster, the destruction of the United States. In many ways the destruction. Of Europe, the crippling of. Africa, the depopulating of the entire eastern world. Fundamentally. This planet, which was the majority population. Of land and the. Whole of the federation at this. Time effectively, besides the handful of colonies. In the asteroid belt was scattering of other places. Earth was the. Only place they had. And. It just lost most of its farmers, most of its food supply, and. Most of its arable. Land is ruined. This is why the patrician class develops. This is why the federation economy and really the federation as a government and institution, grows out of the essentiality of food and effectively the federation saying we need to secure food for our soldiers. We need to secure other resources for our soldiers. The best way for us to do that during this war is to effectively command the economy and allocate resources as best as we can, and that failed fairly quickly, and then it moved towards we need to use market mechanisms to influence directions for what we want. By essentially rewarding people and setting market prices ourselves for allowing the market to work out many of its own internal solutions and the federation market develops through this unique federation. Citizenship develops, yada yada yada. The traditional history of the First Federation's formation. Food is the core though, and food is the core of that formation and of the period after the Third World War. And even into. The soul war. Because fundamentally there wasn't enough of it for much of this time. So the question was how would we get more of it? Do we build space stations where we can grow food? Do we do internal agriculture and the environment on Earth was just in chaos, it was in ruins. It was untenable to produce food there for the vast majority of people, and So what food there was, the state was massively intervening to try and ensure there were best allocations. But. There were limitations on this. This is the. This is the foundation of the federation. This is the very basis. This is why it's not even in federation rights law that is actually in the first Federation Bill of Rights that migrant passes. The fundamental right to food is one of the initial rights granted in essentially all the core documents. It's not even a right. Granted, it's not, it's not legislated, it's every person. Who worked for the federal government? Yes, there may have been. Periods where they did without food. Because supply chains were ruined, there were practical, real concerns. But the assumption was throughout most of the Third World War, if you were working with the government, if you were part of the war, you were fed, the only question was how do we organize that when the war ended and most of the world lay in ruins and we were the vast majority of what was left of Earth's population? 3.5 billion people, when roughly 2 billion of them are not part of the war economy, are not part of the government, are part of industries that have been ruined and destroyed and relegated. And through the war and all the chaos of it, internal economies have just gone to **** and. Effectively, the federation has to start massively expanding the hand it has in internal markets, and this leads to the consolidation of power and large disputes between national governments who are at one level trying to work out their own food policies and the federal government, which has a consistent obligation to its people to deliver food to them. And so the question of how are these conflicting obligations get resolved is that eventually a return to federation has kept overpowering the nations and has angered the nations greatly. That's very true, but at the same time, the federation was consistent that. Look, we will open up. A farm in central Canada. We will go to a place like Saskatchewan, Central Saskatchewan. And we will do whatever we need to do to build out farming there. We'll build out whatever farming we can because this is farmable land, that, yes, it may not have the great. Returns that Europe used to have. But Europe is bombed to **** and irradiated. This isn't this. Can grow food. So we're gonna put troops around our farm here. That we're gonna pay. We're gonna put farmers on that land to work, and we're gonna set up management to operate, and we're gonna bring in resources to run it. We're gonna build a warehouse. We're going. To do everything we can. And overtime, as this place develops, it will supply food we will bring in a ship, it will land. We'll land a plan there and we'll fill it up with food. A plane. Was a old. Term for kind of like a shuttle that would just. Fly within a planet, but they would. Land their planes there. Fill them up with food and then find us where to drop the food off. And the calling. Would have to continue its farming plans. And they are protected from outsiders who tried to raid them by federal troops and resources. They needed to be brought in from the federal market, and for this reason there was a small management class, which is the federation kept around to essentially integrate the thing into the whole federation and keep the federation operating. In many ways, it was quite akin to communism, but effectively the federal government said. Look.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [We.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [You got to be. The federation government said, look, we get to be the thing doing this and we could deploy the resources and we're going to keep your countries, which are full of starving, sad people. Essentially, whenever we set up a new farm, we have free pools of labour. We'll just pull people out of this area here. And because we can promise them food and we'll deliver it. Will overtime the food credits, which were the core of the federation economy, because fundamentally at the end of the day internally the federation. After the Third World War. During the third world. War there were. Two commitments we must win the war. So we need to supply whatever is necessary to do. That and if you work. For us, we'll give you food. We're working for us and we give you food. That's. Necessary for us to. Win the war so that is. Our most fundamental commitment. After the war, it was being prepared. For the next. War. So we need to maintain our. Commitment that if. You work for us, will give you food. Need to monopolize food effectively, or if not monopolize it, at least secure a stable control over it. Because once the federation. Had secured that. Which it did quite effectively during the Third world. War. Excuse me? Once the Federation secured food within the planet Earth. Or at least within its own borders, and for the nation states, which have to. Bow down to it. It could then start to. Say, look, we'll trade you X food for this. And eventually that. Develops into well. You won't actually trade you food right now, but we'll trade you a ticket, a credit, or. One meal at. A federation plant. And that credit, that food credit at a federation food clinic because again the federation. Wanted to control as. Much as they. Could. Eventually became because it promised food too large amounts. People who didn't. Have access to food? It became the new standard. Gold currency. This is the thing we need that can keep us alive. So fundamentally, the federation ruled with this. They ruled with the credit. And it ruled with food. And so working for the federation, which eventually became the foundation of Federation citizenship. The fundamental right associated with it was. That you get food. So as the federation expanded as it starts to develop. Companies these. Yes, they would operate these farms, but eventually it started. To say, why don't we? Let the farmers run the farm and let some management work for the farm. Let them work with running the farm and. Effectively, we will start to develop if you were to say someone in. Let's say you're in Chile and you have you're in a local town and you you come to. The federation, you could say. If you give me food, I. Will get. This iron mine working for you. I will get this steel plant working for you. If you can give me food and if you can supply the steel and if you can supply the. Because I need my, you know, mine or whatever, right or not people. Possibly the steel. But you can supply the iron. That we need to make our plant work. And the fuel to make it work. And the federation says, well, if we give you food credits for your goods, if you're willing to work, we're basically we're willing to trade you. The federal government comes to them and says we're going to do 2 things. We want to give you access to the federation market. And because we have an internal system which ensures a minimum amount of allocation for us to fulfill. The needs we have, which really means. Look, we the federation exists for one main purpose, to build a military. 2 defenders from, you know they're going to attack us. So we need to make sure that when we're doing things like opening a steel mill or an iron plant we. Are going to. Take on a commitment. Uh, the OK. We're going to open iron, we're going to steel. Mill here and we need to get iron. Who we know we can make our well, we notice iron and chili. Let's go find someone in. Chili, who can sell us iron? They will go mountain. Ridge. They find this guy who's? Saying hey, if. You give me food I can get. If you give me food and access. To the federation market. I will be able to and you know. Some upfront food. Credits trade on it to get my founding. Resources. I will be able to deliver to you iron. Now the Federation works out is effectively.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [So.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [A loan agreement we will give you X amount of food. Will actually food credits, which you can use to buy food.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [And.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [We will give you X. You can use that as credits to buy other resources basically. And we're going to give them to possibly a single individual, possibly to a community. Federations happy to work with whoever could create. An agreement for this. And effectively this is what creates the patrician class. They're the ones who control the food. Because they're the ones. Who say, look, we will go. These will work. Here the mind here. I'm the guy who can do this. I got. The loan I got the food. I've taken on this risk so I may go to the market. I'm going to buy all these resources, I'm going to find laborers in my town and I got you. Go work in that mine and come the first day you'll promise to assign the fair obligation because assigned to it the Federation does is as I. Was saying the layout. We're going to give you expired credits. And in return you have to give us Y of. Whatever we promised you at a base. Minimum. Which the federation then adds to. Their resource pool. And. We're going to start a new project where they're creating a new. Project so for. Example. They're looking at this mine. They go. What? Do we have in the pool? Well, do we have? Enough. No. OK. Do we have the resources available to build up? A supply chain. To begin to build up a. Bit of extra capacity because that's the big thing. The federation is looking for, you know, in. This whole period here they may be. They may be willing. To take on a massive supply chain expansion. But the only real angle they want from it is look if our actual excess goes from zero or negative to we have 15 extra pickaxes in the federation, that's great. If we have 50,000, we have too many and we need to open up a French immediately. But having 15 means that. If we say. We need a change. Here it gives us a foundation to give us a bit to play with it means. We're roughly just. A little bit above equilibrium. In our story. Which is that is. And if our store houses are? A little bit above equilibrium. At or above our equal, there we go. We want to set an equal. Over here a little bit that will be like above 0. For us what we want then, is that everyone beyond us is hopefully able to actually produce, you know, if we have 15 extra pickaxes, not 50,000. The hope is that the difference between 50,000 and 15, the other 49,000 and whatever it is. Or those are pickaxes that? Can go on to a market where. If let's say that money. Went to either an individual patrician or to a group of people in a town, say a group of town shareholders or whatever. If they're getting those. Extra food credits back. The hope is they're going to take them, and once they've amassed enough personal wealth, if they feel secure, they can reinvest it back into the economy. They can take it and go. OK, let's put this into the economy. Let's take these and let's reinvest and let's buy this. This thing, this building, this. We are going. To cash to buy. You know, we have this iron plant here. We have this steel. Melt down there, but we also go. To some coal. Nearby. So we're going to buy more pickaxes than we will buy before we're going to buy out more laborers, and we're going to put them over there. And all of that is rooted in food. And so that meant that the Federation's biggest thing, the reason they. Had to build all of this supply. Was one it had to. Maintain building its. War fleet, but the core of that it had. To maintain building out its food supply. It needed its more fleet. To protect its food supply and to protect itself. So it could. Continue to deliver on its food supply to itself. The food supply was the core. And remains to be the. Core of the federations per day. Now the fundamental. Shift happens around the 2nd to 3rd Federation and. The second federation. I believe it. Is. Being made that the next step you're very confident is the second federation. We see the 1st. Matter. Reconfigure patient devices, not replicators as we know them today, not the. Device we know. But the precursors, the predecessors, they didn't have the multiplicity of functions or the ability to transform and transmute from one resource type to another, say from iron. To copper or to wheat to recompose it. At that chemical level.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [But what it?](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [Could do is it could convert with. A large enough stockpile of resources. From 1:00 to another. It would have the requisite input elements. That is, it could very easily handle much of the breaking. Down and reformulation. The only question was supplying it and throughout the second federation and the early 3rd federation, this increasingly became a major. Pressure. Because effectively what this had allowed. The federation to do in great quantity. Is when this first comes on the scene. It's invented in the. The second federation during the great transition really is one of the first mass matter transmutations to come online because the goal is if we can grow calorie rich.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [Is.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [Substitute for wheat that are very chemically similar or similar to other material food stuffs that we like. But which we. Can grow in the small fleets that we. Have under the conditions we're in, but that. We're able to put. Into these machines and through them. It's able to break them down and reformulate. Into the food we like to eat then. Because at this point in time. In the Proto Second Federation for the second federation. Is really formed but. During the great during in the like. The obligation on the federation that it must supply food. Is absolutely essential. Because for literally all the people who. It's taking with them. It's promising them to preserve its ideal of the federation. For every one of them, it lets it. Dies for every decrease. In people that. It has well. It's like if it suffers population loss, which it did, it did it for periods, but the whole population actually grew during this period. During the whole of. The great journey period, the population of the federation expanded. That is to say. But if you're looking at the question of. Food growth in this period here and you're looking at the second federation or Pro Second Federation discrete journey period. As I've been saying. The people needed to eat because if you let them die, the federation would die. So you have to feed.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [Them.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [So this is what started to dry. Would have been sort. Of a late 1st Federation photo technology and idea to deal with the increasing population growth and the lack of jobs, lack of resources, lack of food as every worlds were continuing to disappear and. The question was becoming. Very prevalent a question which Palpatine solution for and the richer solution for was essentially. Kill a lot of people or use magic for the witchers in part, but then also kill a lot of people and that got to be too complicated. And costly and annoying and expensive and just generally undesirable for them. Let large swaths of people die. Because there was no good. Solution exactly when the federation is being forced. To work on. Verse suffered massive population loss to which radar the muscle cells have suffered massive population loss. All of the powers which left suffered heavily until the federation was able to bring these replicators. These early replicators. These transmutations, if you. Will. Online and then start trading them to other partners because this fundamental let them gain access to a food supply. But for the federation it restored. Obligation of we will give you at minimum three meals a day and enough food to survive on that. You need to live, will give you your minimum. Amount of calories. And so the food credit. Shifted slightly to a calorie credit. But it still. Is fundamentally a full credit, which is what the original full credit was, and the fact that we won meal. Worth of food? And this begins to demonstrate that whenever the federation hits a bad point, the fundamental breakdown of its currency goes back to not being fancy money, but to how much food can I get? And can I get one meal with my currency? The worst periods of federation inflation, the worst periods of the 4th Federation of the First Federation of the Second Federation, and even of. The third federation. And would be. Thankfully not seen here in the 5th Federation, but which for example existed during the Imperial Civil War that recently occurred. Just before the Great War. We did see a point where if you convert the current federation credit, which is not technically directly tied to food costs and is not. A food credit. But if you calculate the OR the system, if you use the same formula which is used to calculate the calorie cost for the credit, what we actually saw is that through inflation and destruction of food supply, war costs, labour destruction, etcetera.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [Just.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [During that civil war. Effectively, the federation credit went from. Being one credit gets you about 1.3 to 1.7 meals. At present, it's holding safe at 1.6 meals it has for the last 15 years. Per credit, if you use this basis, which again it's not, this is not a type. Two statistic this is just a useful reference point. As the most basic federation economic indicator, that is to say. In the civil war. It reached the point. Of point 0.4. Sorry 0.4. 131 credit. To get you 0.4. Other necessary calories. For one meal in a day, for the average human adult. That was absolutely horrific. The foundation had never been at that point at that time, except in its founding days. The first federation in that period before, during the Third World War, and like and shortly after the First Soul War, but. Besides those periods of time. Only brief periods of the Proto Second Federation that. It reaches low as .5 point 6. Point. Four in that war was. Truly, the horrific low. Thankfully, that period only lasted about five years and the. The driver behind that. There's not so much a supply issue as well supply issue of food, there is to say. But a supply issue of. Currency. The inflationary policies of the. Pro Federation loyalist government. As great as it is. That they won. And I'm very happy they. Did you do not take this critique in the negative member? The inflationary policies. They embark, they embarked on have been regarded by many. Economists of different schools, especially those more on our current political. Right as having. Been deeply destructive to wars. Our economic environment today and are reflected in this food indication value. We can say safely that the massive economic expansion which occurred in the Great War and the massive job creation, and sorry, the tragic loss of life. Always helped to rebalance the economic formula to where, as I said, we've now consistently found at. 1.5 but. When the 5th. Federation started about. 30 to 50 years after the OR what, 20 to 30 years? Sorry. After the Great War, depending on when you want to put it. When the 5th Federation started. We were holding steady at a 1.1 to 1.3 so. I have to commend. Our great leader Goodwin, for everything her economic policies have done up to this point in time, and I apologize for getting so political in this lecture. I just with the enhancement. Of refraction alization of the credit, it's difficult not to comment on the fact that doing this. Is the sort of inflationary policy which was carried out in. That civil war and which led to such horrific action, and which? The government had so carefully avoided for. The last 15 years. So. Appreciate that. Apologies for that off colour land. We're turning back now to the discussion of food prices and the way food packs, things acknowledging that I only have about 20 minutes left at best. The second federation have this. Essentiality of food. And as it began to develop around its remap, its reformat or its matter, reformatting device, which eventually became the third Federation Replicator. There is a. Very heavy materialist account of federation history. Which routes the Replicator invention is really what changes in the third federation that? All of that math population. The fundamental release file for wasn't actually the transformation. The structure of the fleet. Would have been much more terrific. Horrific and unrecoverable had the replicator not come into existence about 2000 years before Dyson became president, and by Dyson's time had become much more popular and widespread, allowing for the massive loss of life and reincorporation of mass expansion of the military and the creation of the federal military and the Lords militaries and their competition. None of that would have been possible without the replicators allowing huge swaths of the population to leave. Factory jobs, farming jobs, trades, jobs. Really. Just any production heavy work that could be offloaded onto replicators overtime free up labour for military service or intellectual service. Putting them into the arts. And it would fundamentally transform the federation economy. Who is the next major economic transformation history? Beyond horror of the Industrial Revolution, yes, there were greatly destructive. Aspects of this but. They put lots of people at their jobs. It ruined the economy for a while, but in the long run it has absolutely liberated us because today. As the reading. Before matter came online. And its demands roll out of primary input goods, as the replicator has come online and become popularized at the third federation. Input goods are still considered essential, but secondary to energy supply. Fundamentally solving that we can create new atoms through. Enough energy and being able to generate that energy and. Being able to. Create those atoms or basically if we have enough pool of atoms we can figure. Them as we need. To, but we could essentially take whatever junk material. We need and produce off of that. This fundamental transformation and replication technology. As developments have made it so that. The economy is just transformed. Food today is a luxury good, which their master vast majority of the federation population gets to indulge in some 97 to 98% of federation citizens eat non replicated food for three. To five of the meals they consume in a day, or if not, meals, food consumption, a day with their total food consumption generally being.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [About.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [6 about 5 to 7 meals a. Day. Or food consumption points. By all Federation polling statistics, replicated meals are seen as great cheap snacks.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [For.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [When you're at home. And just want. Something to enjoy. But effectively all Federation citizens from all economic classes, all social backgrounds from everywhere. There's just a federation agreed upon ideal that, yes, well, it's great we have this replicator if you have the chance to eat non replicated food, it is just better. This is completely. Agreed upon by people in the federation. It is a widely studied phenomenon and widely regarded phenomenon. But it demonstrates the. Essentiality of food. Because it keeps every world as an important part of the federation economy in the second federation, agriculture was an important part of the economy because we needed egry goods to feed into the reform matters in the third federation. Every world we're. An important economic source in the first half, for the same reason as the second. And. And the second-half? Because by then, people had gotten so rich that they simply preferred to eat real food or even food that had. Replicated ingredients in it if. It was prepared by a human chef. As opposed to just prepared by the replicator. Having the human do it was seen as preferable. If you could. Get food that was actually grown by people. That was even better. The massive amount of demand for this food has created large sets of economic incentives. Throughout the third federation. That. Developed in the 4th Federation, the ultra wealthy, I mean the people on Earth pure on Earth. It's almost hard to find replicated food. Yes, you may go back to your apartment or your dorm room if you're a student or I guess your house if you're your real apartment. If your lower that you own or your house. Someone truly, truly, of great wealth. And you may have a replicator there. But it's hardly used, it's it's basically untouched because there's so much food, real food being constantly important to Earth. But prices are actually cheap enough that for the most part you can eat every meal at a restaurant prepared to real ingredients, buy a real chef for our grilled chefs and. Real weight staff. And part of that is the. Development of the 4th Federation. And a lot of the chaos in the 4th Federation. Can essentially be rooted in the fact that. If we're taking this materialist account and. We see a third federation. As a fundamental transformation, the 4th Federation is when the economy of this transformation began to break down itself. Yes, it's great. Now everyone doesn't need to be a farmer, but. In the 4th Federation, we struggle with him. But we have all these. People and we have this great safety net, but a lot of people are still falling into traps with it, even with universal basic income. Even with replicators producing cheap food. People get caught up in. The desire of wanting more than people want real food or they escape into the net, and this binary of federation society with the medicines on one side and everyone else.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [That.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3) [On the other. It's the abhorrent underclass of the federation who subsists. Through not even eating. Food, but just getting the necessary nutrients. Pumped right into them while they spend their entire lives living. In cyberspace and the void net and the like, it's. It's horrific. Frankly, I I. Have to be honest, Jerry, I'm sorry for being political. But it just it it it. Or if eyes need to see this to see these people. To see the way they live on this, just plugged into the net, selling their minds out for processing power to companies. And I understand the movements designing to desire to ban the selling of 1's mental processing capacity to companies. I think those movements are mistaken. They misunderstand the importance of economic rights and the federation. But I do have to wonder about the ability of our federation to provide for these Internet addicts. And if perhaps cutting some of the entitlements they have wouldn't be useful because it might just. Horse thumb to actually do something more productive with their lives than just spend all of it browsing the net. Half addicted and 1/2 day sleep selling 80% of their mental processing capacity to some company while they have essentially constant drug induced slumber or just watching their favorite. One shows it's horrific. The means for the. Rest of the federation economy and. Started to add one last point to. This deeply political round. These people still technically count towards Federation statistics, so if one takes into account these people in our entire voting statistics, the federation doesn't. Have a strong middle. Class strong, relatively small upper class and relatively small working class or lower. Class. It has everyone. Underwriting same statistical analysis is placed into. The working class or lower class middle end at. That lower end. Will be considered as part of. The upper class, if we were. To count all of. These mine servants, these netizens, as part of our actual economic statistics, and when you do this, you get absolutely inflated and insane stats or something like 90% of the federation population dating back to 80,000. Years ago, who were so plugged into the net? In some way. Are living on Ubi as a brain in a jar plugged into the Internet? And seemingly have no real access to rates constantly are selling their money to companies just constantly selling it and theoretically have a vote, but are never actually capable of exercising it. Never do exercise it. And fundamentally or. Essentially non people because they don't have the intellectual capacity to be people. And I don't mean that in an offensive way. I mean they have literally sold away the ability in their mind to do anything but have a television show, project it into it, and sit there in a dopamine stupor. So considering the rest of the federation population, the. We consider actually. Productive. In the 4th Federation. The crisis began to emerge of this underclass continuously growing and expanding, and the increasingly common choice of people that drop out into it or changes drop out of activity altogether and just get into the non participation watching of society. But not being part of it. And this is where the crisis of food had fundamentally changed in the federation, because now the question wasn't is there too little food? The Federation's obligation to give food to people is so consistent even throughout the 4th federation that no dictator. To get away with denying that right, none of them could ever really like. It was so unthinkable. It was never even properly attempted, and a handful of times it was. It's worth noting exemptions that when you're fighting a. War and you blockade a plant so. You're not letting food. Get into it. Is fundamentally different in the mind of Federation law and practice, and in history then. Through. Legal right to food, and they consistently fought. For right, even in the. 4th federation. Even when in the darkest times of it. You have periods where the companies have almost all the rights and power where effectively it is the President, the dam and the Chancellor of the House of Business standing together with the largest companies to face off against the Senate and the House of Commons and the Lords. And those companies? Will still lose votes in their own house and face presidential veto for trying to override the right to food to their workers. There is simply no put put. No version of the. Federation, where food is not delivered. In fact, there is. Principally been shown even in the 5th Federation, even in our current economic crisis, where a large chunk of the outer rim is effectively cut. Off from trade. Or effectively, large chunks of various dominion. Are not being able to trade with. Their with the. Rest of other dominions. The rest of the federation market, we're on the whole if we go area by Area, Federation market access is down to as low as 3% in some parts of poor federation dominions. I'm talking places. Like mental death, places like that where there is real actual economic loss that has so crippled these regions that there is no. Recovery for them. At least not right now. The HP reconnected to the market, but that 3% market access, that 3% is food because that's what. The federation will not allow to go away. The federation, if your region is so desperate. It needs food. You can appeal to the Court and. The Federation governor of your. The noble of your. Region. If they do not deliver food to you, you can sue. Them and take them to. Appeals court, after appeal court level after level. And consistently every time this has gotten up to the Supreme Court in the 4th Federation, even during the heights of the worst rulers. You've ever had. Consistently, the answer was no. You must deliver food. You cannot deny food. That is the power of the federation in a lot of ways, and that is the importance of food. To the federation. So I'm not coming up on the end of my time and. The goal of this lecture. Has been to communicate the. Importance of food and federation history. And I hope I've done that. The Replicator is fundamentally transformative because it changes the foodscape, but the importance and essentiality of food doesn't change in the war, even in the Great War, when planets were being destroyed for their food problems. That was an issue. One of the first major crises that Goodman had to deal with the. Pete or Goodman John Goodwin. His first crisis, the first crisis of his goal. Age. We're essentially trying to. Fix the food. Supply not just because, yes, replicators could make food, but the vast majority of Federation citizens, in fact federation statistics considers poverty to be when you have to eat 2 out of three meals from your replicator of the necessary meals. You need to eat a day. The thought of the 5:00 to 8:00, I said earlier, people choose to eat. No, no, no. That's the three meals you have to eat if. Two of those. Come from a replicator. That's the proof. You're in the lowest percentile of working federation people. That is to say, you're in the bottom of the nine. Class hierarchy of the federation. The lower lower class if you're 2 out of three meals from a replicator, think about that. Think about how food rich you have to be to have that as a substitute. No, by the way, it's not that you're missing that third meal. The claim is that that third meal is still being eaten out, being eaten from non replicated. Food sources. So it's not that these people aren't getting their food. The only argument is they aren't getting enough of the good food. And that was John Goodman's crisis. And he resolved that crisis through massive expansions to agricultural areas in various new, not new dominions, but in the dominions of the federation. Massive capital allocations towards allowing expanding those etcetera. The fundamental goal of his regime through much of the Great War was it normalizing food prices and increase in food supply. Indeed, the fact that in the. Great War at. The credits to food ratio that I mentioned earlier actually at 1 moment. The peak of one point. 98 nearly two food meals per credit. Now the Federation has had high as as. High as 12. Meals per credit. That was an exceptional period of the second federation and more in the third federation. There was a few blocks of a couple of centuries where it got. As high as. 8. For regular periods of time. But in the middle of a war? And consistently supply ships were being. As trade routes and access to outer regions, which is factored into this. Calculation of credit ratio by the. Way it are being cut off from access because there's an increasing centralization drive. When all of that is occurring and at the same time, there is still great amounts of food, excess waste being discovered and found and reallocated. It is amazing. With the credit. Reached that level. Now the obvious question is what happened since then? And the answer is after the Great War, we really didn't need the great amount of food capacity we had, and instead we've shifted from trading this food and by extension, having the people do it to trying to expand their existing. Trade us to deal. With our trade volatility issues in. Our economy and look. But that's a problem for a different lecture I know about to run out of time. I'd like to thank you all for listening to this discussion on federation history and the importance of food to it, and I wish you all a great day.](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3)  [](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3)  [](https://umanitoba-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mcinto21_myumanitoba_ca/Documents/Transcribed%20Files/LectureOnFood.mp3)