What a dull article. The entire piece can be summed up in one paragraph:<p>>I normally detest anything to do with Silicon Valley, but when I first heard about Soylent, several years ago, I was intrigued. I hate cooking and I am a sucker for lifehacks. I thought Soylent might change my life. So I bought 24 bottles of the stuff. I took one sip and retched. Reader, it tasted like nostril. Disappointed, I put the remaining 23 bottles in a cupboard and forgot about them. Until I got a bottle out to remind myself what it tasted like and inadvertently poisoned myself.<p>She thought Soylent might change her life, but was ultimately disappointed by the flavour. How does that make it 'everything that's wrong with modern life'?
I’d go so far as to say that this puddle deep essay about Soilent with an over the top click bait headline is part and parcel with the ills of modern life the author is trying to capture.