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Soylent fans would argue that this alone is a valid benefit of Soylent - reasonable, healthy nutrition that takes no planning or decision-making, and is cheap a
by beering 13y ago
Soylent fans would argue that this alone is a valid benefit of Soylent - reasonable, healthy nutrition that takes no planning or decision-making, and is cheap and easy.
Getting people to eat better is not an easy problem to fix.
(BTW, it's also easy to paint restaurant food as bad, without actually examining why. It's also easy to make unhealthy home-cooked organic food.)
- Steko 13y ago"reasonable, healthy nutrition that takes no planning or decision-making, and is cheap and easy." You can't say it's cheap because it's not being sold to consumers. There's a promotional price that works out to $10 a day which is cheap but not out of line with similar products. "reasonable, healthy nutrition" give the benefit of the doubt here. "no planning" - doubtful, it's a powder mix you make into shakes. That requires some planning. "no decision making" - identical to any "eat only x" diet, many people would not consider this a selling point. "easy" Ok, we'll give them a pass here. Not the easiest though.
- IanCal 13y agoI wouldn't consider $10 a day cheap. That'd add up to $600 a month for me and my wife, and that's way more than our current food budget (including delivery, beer, wine, fresh roasted coffee and more luxuries). I assumed it was going to be way cheaper than that.
- SquidLord 13y agoYou know, "you are too stupid to be allowed to make your own food," is probably not a good selling point for most people. I'm going to go out on limb and suggest that it's not a good selling point for anyone. "Soylent fans" who are fans before the actual product has been seen or tested in any significant way might self-identify as people who need to be targeted by the first paragraph of this reply, however.