I'm with drakan90 on this.
If the Khanzumers (I'd never heard of these guys when I posted my questions) live in cities and act as a massive consumer base, then their source of income is most likely the commercial layer of the economy.
To put it another way, they work in office jobs, and retail businesses. Sure, RuptureFarms processes the meat into food, but Khansumers aren't going to buy their food in those gigantic wooden barrels! They're going to go down to the supermarket and buy the food in a usable form. Who staffs the supermarket? More Khansumers.
So the Khansumer lifestyle is probably very much like yours or mine. Making money, buying stuff, making more money, buying more stuff. It is very likely that they don't have any idea of the terrible conditions in the Glukkon factories and Vykker laboratories.
Which really ties in nicely with the whole Oddworld analogy to our world. We don't know, and mostly don't care, what goes on at the abbatoir or the dairy farm, we just buy the 500g of minced meat and the litre of milk from the supermarket and get on with life.
|