>It doesn't matter what technology literally exists, that's the fact of the movie.
Hence "for all it matters", narrative wise its perfectly justifiable to withold technological information if the character would have no means of knowing it themselves. We don't need an exposition fairy here, its the problems with the information the movie does give where the whole narrative falls apart and any "Meaning" on it is lost due to the contradictions in it. What are we supposed to take away from a contrived situation that undoes things it said just to add a surface layer message to the thing.
>You see it yourself, even with everyone only eating their share AND the top 51 floors not eating at all there is still not enough food for the last 150~ floors of people.
So remove the line about people getting their favorite food because otherwise it means there should either be enough for everyone. What good is a narrative choice where they make overly expensive and lavishly created portions that are explicitly said to be their favorite food just to then turn around and imply that they just skipped a few people and we coincidentally never met the guys who missed their favored portions?
Why introduce something that contradicts your ending like that? Its baffling.
