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Originally Posted by Keeping It Gimple
yeah those are fair points.
altho he did invent soylent which will soon be cheaper and more widely available than fast food
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right. it's not quite there yet. $2.50 for 400-calorie "meal" is $12.50/day for 2000 calories. not sure of shipping prices? average a family of 4 (some eat less, growing kids eat more), it's $50/day or $1500/month.
same family would get food stamps for $4/day/person or roughly $480. that's the established "basic" level.
so you'd save $1000/month by foraging the supermarket like a donkey looking for feed, lol (that was funny).
that makes soylent a convenience not a basic food at this point.
not to say that nothing can be learned from it--
i currently use whey and caseine powders as backup "meals". my own soylent-- i blend it "deluxe" with frozen berries/cherries and some natural peanut butter they're pretty great,d take only minutes to make + clean, etc etc. probably costs the same as a bottle of soylent 2.0 but i understand it tastes a lot better.
so one can approximate without copying. which is what i appreciate about extreme experiments-- they point towards a direction, not necessarily a destination. they don't have to be followed to the letter-- but we can learn things from them. like reading the recovered log of an anctarctic expedition and realizing the power of pemmican.
similarly, i get ideas from bodybuilders and downscale them for my non-hypertrophic needs.
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if i could get soylent for $1/dose (more than what i pay for complete protein), i'd seriously look into it. i wouldn't mind having to blend it myself because shipping bottled water when we already have municipal sources is ultra-wasteful.