Is the end game of humanity shitty chat bots, half assed autonomous cars and salt simulating spoons? Is this what people dream about these days? We're pathetic
So, you're not exactly going against the grain here.
You can still eat as much salt as you like, not need to feel pathetic.
How much of this huge percent are people with bad eating habits and who over used salt for decades in the first place?
We should stop half assing solutions for symptoms when all we have to do is eat properly in the first place, diet coke doesn't solve diabetes, magic salt simulating spoons don't solve decades of bad choices.
All of which is to say: there are many many negative incentives for people to "eat properly" and obesity is still very common. Telling people to just get more disciplined is obviously not working. (Also, obesity and addiction more generally has a large genetic component, so try to have some empathy)
Ok so the solution is to give them a plastic spoon that simulates salt, which solves nothing, gotcha...
> there are many many negative incentives for people to "eat properly" and obesity is still very common.
And there are infinitely more incentives for food companies to make you fat and addicted at all cost, and many incentives for the pharmaceutical industry to have fat and unhealthy people they can sell "cures" to.
- landed on the Moon
- industrialized agriculture to support a population orders of magnitude larger than otherwise possible
- eliminated smallpox, polio
- invented penicillin which has saved hundreds of millions
These are just the ones off the top of my head
Which destroyed our soils and allowed us to grow so out of proportion that in 200 years of industrial revolution we're slowly coming to the conclusion that we might have destroyed our home planet...