Happy that you-all are taking care of your selves so you can continue moving on to the best efforts; hope to be one of the paying subscribers in the future but not emotionally attached to that; happy to be a recipient of the free stuff for now. Take care, be well!

All props to Quinn for the patience to respond thoughtfully, directly and without exuded judgement to the preceding comment. Disappointing that the first comment-enabled post is met by only a single thoughtful person so far - the others, sadly, being a sarcastic nihilist, and a man-child who is literally getting hung up on a level of minutiae that this very article specifically identifies as the superficial (albeit complex) layers roadblocking sighting of opportunities to resolve some very serious and systemic problems. Where are the rest of the "shit-givers", I ask? No one is here for diatribes by the shit-headed. It takes no effort to fire off vapid commentary, you detractors. Let's instead engage meaningfully with the material presented, as the second commenter did. Or else practice the rule of Thumper's mother (and I may be paraphrasing): If you can't say something nice, then please just STFU. "Look in a mirror", or simply ignore, you may now say. Sorry-not-sorry. I give a shit. :P

"Food, water, and air are the three human necessities. Even Clarence Thomas and Mitch McConnell cannot deny these things. These are ground-level facts we can agree on, because we have to."

This is precisely the partisan bull-hockey we don't need another source of fertilizer for... please don't.

nice...occam's razor + a light touch of critical thinking (a lost art it seems in the age of technology). intrigued by the idea of slim to nil profit on producers of essentials - food, water, air - but why stop there? Perhaps profits, after fair compensation + reinvestment need be mandated to future forward research, innovation to advance, solve category issues or returned back into social coffers to support those negatively impacted by said category (i.e. chips, high fatty foods supplement obesity related illness)

Starvation (air, water, food) is the ultimate population control.