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Saves the world? Saves the fucking world? How? People in this world suffer malnutrition because of socio-political and logistical problems. A maybe shelf stab

• 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.