Did you ever read the Harry Harrison novel Make Room, Make Room or see the film version entitled Soylent Green starring Charlton Heston? A New York Times article about the "sleep vendors" of Delhi, India, brings to mind the conditions starkly portrayed in that book and in the subsequent film.
Grim conditions in Delhi ... one doesn't think of winter India getting cold enough to freeze someone, except perhaps in the high Himalayas. Or realize the extent to which the absolutely inflexible demand for sleep is economically exploitable.
