Timeline for How do I drug a population in the most efficient way?
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| Dec 10, 2016 at 16:20 | comment | added | Rodrigo | Use an official religion that prescribes the desired drug. | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 15:31 | comment | added | kaiser | "2 billion people" ... reminds me of Vienna where pretty much everybody is an alcoholic. Simple answer: Remove the taxes on beer and wine. Works pretty well and your government doesn't have to do anything. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 14:12 | answer | added | mcbecker | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 24, 2014 at 15:00 | answer | added | Robert Boettcher | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 18:53 | answer | added | Dronz | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 15:44 | answer | added | superluminary | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 6, 2014 at 12:55 | comment | added | Falco | Does it have to be a drug? Did you think about some from of radiation? Waves, Sound, Light, Modulations in Gravity or Magnetic field... You could combine this with other answers like Bacteria which everyone has, but which die without the special conditions of the city. Everyone would be infected with the bacteria, and they only produce the drug in the people with the radiation/energy-field/sound/light in the city. | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 19:18 | answer | added | Jay Vogler | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 3, 2014 at 10:08 | answer | added | dtldarek | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 3, 2014 at 4:21 | comment | added | yters | Get people addicted to living a comfortable, entertaining lifestyle and having all their basic needs taken care of such that they can't care for themselves and don't want to gain the capability. In order to live such a life, the individuals need to constantly be doing the government's work, for which they receive lifestyle coupons to purchase goods and services. Use their schooling and entertainment to teach them they live the epitome of human life, and anything different is dangerous, so they don't seek for alternatives. No need for chemical drugs to control the masses.... | |
| Oct 3, 2014 at 2:49 | comment | added | Doktor J | @DavidZ because most of them would live in squalor, without what we consider "basic necessities" such as sewage treatment, hospitals, etc... they would be lucky to have running water and electricity. | |
| Oct 3, 2014 at 2:47 | comment | added | user487 | Random bit that I recall hearing on a radio program involved something that might touch on this (noting that I haven't read the book) - the food supply necessary for a certain population aspect. | |
| Oct 3, 2014 at 1:12 | comment | added | Adam Davis | Consider reversing the situation, similar to Jurassic Park. You control the hospitals where people are born and receive vaccinations. Damage their DNA in a way that prevents a certain necessary protein or amino acid from being created, and then provide vitamins that contain that item, along with whatever else you want them drugged with. People start getting sick, tell them to take their vitamins. Claim that the food supply is nutritionally inadequate. If they go off the vitamin, or leave the city without a supply of it, they become sick and die. Comment as it doesn't exactly fit your needs. | |
| Oct 3, 2014 at 1:07 | comment | added | David Z | @DoktorJ what about restaurants and grocery stores? Food storage warehouses? Sewage treatment plants and clean water filtration plants? Power stations? Certainly there's no doubt that two billion people in 200-story skyscrapers could physically fit in a hundred square miles or so, each with some small amount of living space, but all the extra infrastructure required to maintain a society would increase that space by a significant factor. | |
| Oct 3, 2014 at 0:57 | comment | added | Doktor J | @DavidZ Easily. Imagine if 200-story skyscrapers covered the city's surface area, disposing with silly space-wasting things like open streets and parks. Instead, passageways would only run every 3-5 levels, and you'd have to walk (or take some other form of small conveyance) to travel between units, and within non-passageway levels. Real estate on the passageway levels would of course command a much higher price :) | |
| Oct 3, 2014 at 0:03 | comment | added | worldbuilder | It's already been done. Have you tried your tapwater recently? How about anything you get from the grocery store? Have you breathed air lately? Gotten a flu shot? Gotten any sort of vaccine? The secret elite have been drugging us all for over a century. | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 23:22 | comment | added | David Z | @MichaelKjörling that was my thought as well. If nothing else, I think a city of two billion people would have to be enormous, more the size of a US state than what we know as a city. It would be like if the entirety of South Carolina had the population density of Manhattan. (One can get higher population densities, of course, but how much higher?) | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 21:54 | answer | added | ArmanX | timeline score: 4 | |
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| Oct 2, 2014 at 18:05 | comment | added | ps2goat | have you ever seen the movie Serenity? | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 16:38 | comment | added | Izkata | @Liath That's how I got here! | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 14:55 | comment | added | Lou | Per curiosity, why don't you want to drug the water supply? It certainly seems like the most efficient way to do it, as people are quite obviously dependent on water. | |
| S Oct 2, 2014 at 14:40 | answer | added | singabend | timeline score: -4 | |
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| Oct 2, 2014 at 13:54 | answer | added | James | timeline score: 12 | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 13:47 | answer | added | user412 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 13:47 | comment | added | Raestloz | Surely I'm not the only person imagining a CIA agent somewhere reading the answers, rubbing his chin and grinning? | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 13:44 | comment | added | user | Two billion people? As in, about a third of Earth's human population (which is about 7 billion), or two India or China, all in a single city? The logistics of handling every one of two billion people every week would be enormous. | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 13:10 | answer | added | RedSonja | timeline score: 5 | |
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| Oct 2, 2014 at 12:14 | answer | added | Mudrlant | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 12:03 | comment | added | PlasmaHH | How advanced is micro/nanotechnology in your world? It could be those nasty mosquitos everyone complains about but no one can get rid of... | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 11:10 | comment | added | PTwr | So you want to turn Trantor citizens into junkie timebomb? | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 10:31 | answer | added | cmousset | timeline score: 17 | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 10:11 | answer | added | Raestloz | timeline score: 10 | |
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| Oct 2, 2014 at 9:00 | comment | added | Liath | Oh this is a certain for the "Hot Network Questions" box... | |
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