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Because this guy is making a fortune on a very simple and ancient idea brought into practice after some self studying. If Soylent delivers and can be capitaliz

by zxcdw 13y ago

Because this guy is making a fortune on a very simple and ancient idea brought into practice after some self studying. If Soylent delivers and can be capitalized on, this guy saves the world. On an ancient idea, simplest of them all, which everyone said was impossible.

Afforess 13y ago
Making a fortune? 500k is crowdfunding for enhancing the product and paying for clinical trials. I guess crowdfunding isn't cool anymore?
- zxcdw 13y ago
  So you fail to see the market for this? 500k in croudfunding for a guy with absolutely no academic education behind the subject which by it's idea is as simple as Soylent is must surely rub the fur of a few the wrong way. "It just can't work!".
Avshalom 13y ago
Saves the world? Saves the fucking world? How? People in this world suffer malnutrition because of socio-political and logistical problems. A maybe shelf stable maybe meal-replacement isn't going to solve any problems, because as is kind of a theme in this version of the soylent thread WE ALREADY HAVE THIS.
- zxcdw 13y ago
  Saving the world is obviously(yes it is, lets not even argue) an extreme case formulation in this case. My point stands, the man came up with something as ancient and as simple as "generic stuff you can just eat and get all you need without preparation or other stuff you need to ever care about", and people go absolutely nuts over it. It is my belief that the problem is not the product, but the idea. I do not hold any qualified education to argue for or against whether or not something like that is ever possible, but considering the heated debate back and forth, to me it seems as if it's not about Soylent itself or anything, but rather about the whole principal idea. I enjoy cooking and good food, and put some effort in what I eat and what I don't eat, so I am not even personally interested let alone invested in this. Also the marketing speeches of Soylent fixing everything are outright laughable, but I can't stop wondering the knee jerk reaction against the idea behind Soylent itself even.

by zxcdw 13y ago

Afforess 13y ago

Making a fortune? 500k is crowdfunding for enhancing the product and paying for clinical trials. I guess crowdfunding isn't cool anymore?

zxcdw 13y ago
So you fail to see the market for this? 500k in croudfunding for a guy with absolutely no academic education behind the subject which by it's idea is as simple as Soylent is must surely rub the fur of a few the wrong way. "It just can't work!".

Avshalom 13y ago

Saves the world? Saves the fucking world? How? People in this world suffer malnutrition because of socio-political and logistical problems. A maybe shelf stable maybe meal-replacement isn't going to solve any problems, because as is kind of a theme in this version of the soylent thread WE ALREADY HAVE THIS.

zxcdw 13y ago
Saving the world is obviously(yes it is, lets not even argue) an extreme case formulation in this case. My point stands, the man came up with something as ancient and as simple as "generic stuff you can just eat and get all you need without preparation or other stuff you need to ever care about", and people go absolutely nuts over it. It is my belief that the problem is not the product, but the idea. I do not hold any qualified education to argue for or against whether or not something like that is ever possible, but considering the heated debate back and forth, to me it seems as if it's not about Soylent itself or anything, but rather about the whole principal idea. I enjoy cooking and good food, and put some effort in what I eat and what I don't eat, so I am not even personally interested let alone invested in this. Also the marketing speeches of Soylent fixing everything are outright laughable, but I can't stop wondering the knee jerk reaction against the idea behind Soylent itself even.