The stark difference in tone between the beginning of this article and the end was startling. Judging from the set-up, I thought it was going to be a profile of

The stark difference in tone between the beginning of this article and the end was startling. Judging from the set-up, I thought it was going to be a profile of a company working to improve conditions in rural areas, or for immigrants. But the inherent mismatch between the depiction of Tran's very hard early life resulting from the aftermath of war and logistical difficulties in a third-world country made the problem he's facing now, how to make food for middle-to-upper-class households in America, seem laughable and trivial. What problems are start-ups like Munchery trying to solve? Not the conditions that created Tran and many like him, but the issue of those who don't have home chefs. I'm not saying clawing back time from the day and isn't important and isn't valuable. It most definitely is, especially for parents working in the "second shift"[1], after work. But depicting the idea that Munchery is some great force with a vision while ignoring the larger systemic problems in the story (poverty, access to clean water, aftermath of war) that propelled Tran to arrive in America is a failure of journalism. Let's work on - and shed light on - the harder stuff. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Shift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Shift