You are not accurately describing the complexity of cooking for oneself. This is common amongst people who cook for themselves: you have forgotten just how much skill you bring to bear throughout the week.<p>The first step is not, as you describe, taking a few minutes to prepare food. The first step is buying the raw ingredients. No one will really tell you how to do this. Good home cooks have dozens of menu plans in their head and do quite a complex set of optimization problems to quickly build shopping lists 1-7 times per week. There are some books that will teach you how to do it, but it&#x27;s not quick. Especially if you are starting from zero.<p>There&#x27;s also cookware, and if you leave your home you have to transport the food to where you are going or prepare it ahead of time.<p>I think your core assertion—we have the time—is correct. If you have infinite knowledge, you can feed yourself with as little as a few hours work per week.<p>The problem is most people don&#x27;t have the food knowledge you have. And your glib insults won&#x27;t change the fact that no one will really help them build that knowledge up to the level it needs to be. If you are willing to pay a premium for fairly low quality food you can use something like Blue Apron. Or you can make a hobby out of learning to cook. But other than that, who is going to help you get there?<p>So unless you can point at someone who will hold peoples&#x27; hands while they get to the place you&#x27;re describing, maybe leave Soylent alone for solving a problem your admonishments don&#x27;t really help solve.