Soylent should be able to get industrial quantity discounts. a poor person is paying retail. And urban retail is no-where near wholesale (rent/overheads).
Soylent is economic in the sense mentioned in the article--low time spent shopping and no waste.
The scalability limitation on soy-lent is that most people will not be able to eat "something that tastes like cake batter" for 90 meals in a row (one month). There is plenty of evidence for this.
So, until they find a way to deal with "palatability" (its more than just variety), the ultimate upside potential will be limited.
But there are plenty of people making money off off of niche and novelty consumption specialty retail.
Soylent is economic in the sense mentioned in the article--low time spent shopping and no waste.
The scalability limitation on soy-lent is that most people will not be able to eat "something that tastes like cake batter" for 90 meals in a row (one month). There is plenty of evidence for this.
So, until they find a way to deal with "palatability" (its more than just variety), the ultimate upside potential will be limited.
But there are plenty of people making money off off of niche and novelty consumption specialty retail.