The seventeenth district in 2166 still faced numerous other societal challenges.
Elder care was one of them.
As Lu Xiang put it, the average citizen of district seventeen had a low rate of marriage and child-bearing, compounded by endless gang shootouts, leading most people to face the prospect of becoming solitary elders. Amidst these issues, companies proposed solutions.
For instance, they could gather these elders into small rooms, hook them up to devices and, through scientific means, allow them to spend their twilight years in happiness. In return, they would become corporate property, perpetually generating anti-depressant-type emotional gases for the company.
"I looked into the gas production process, it seems like anyone could be a producer, so why are all the producers here elderly?"
In the manager's office, there was a cartoon-style brochure that charmingly outlined the basics of gas production.
