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It's certainly not a revolution by any means
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I love eating. But there's two problems: I love eating too much , and I don't really enjoy cooking. I'd love to add something like Soylent to my "arsenal" to make it easier to skip cooking now and again and make calorie control easier. I manage to keep my weight by regularly counting calories, but it's incredibly tedious and easy to slip up with. I'd rather focus my enjoyment on a smaller set of high quality meals a…
Aren't there dozens of products already out there that let you do that?
Somehow that title, contrasted with the chart ( http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/01/business/economy/changed-l... ) showing how the price of food, especially has gone up in recent years while tech prices have fallen, makes me worry about a future reality where real food is so expensive it's only for the elite, and everyone else subsists on supplements like Soylent.
> One of Silicon Valley’s cultural exports in the past ten years has been the concept of “lifehacking”: devising tricks to streamline the obligations of daily life, thereby freeing yourself up for whatever you’d rather be doing Well, to be frank, I'd rather be eating. What's the point of your life if you don't have time to even eat, let alone enjoy yourself.
In the future, we might see a wider gap between what's eaten for sustenance versus enjoyment.