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Re:Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation by bogomipz on Thursday January 25, 2018 @02:43PM (#16233900)
>"Improving it by eg making it cheaper, or healthier, is an enormous benefit to society."

Just making food cheaper is not an "enormous" benefit to society. For evidence of this see the dollar menu at McDonalds[1]. Food delivery has existed for years now in the US and EU. Please provide any evidence that these services have resulted in either cheaper or healthier food consumption.

[1] http://time.com/money/5085896/mcdonalds-dollar-menu/

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Re:Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation by edanm on Thursday January 25, 2018 @03:25PM (#16234294)
err I did write cheaper or healthier. Obviously both is a good option, too.

And I don't know for sure that these new delivery services will result in cheaper and/or healthier foods. I'm guessing (and hoping) that, as per the article, relying on these new delivery "layers" will provide more options, and more options will translate to lower prices.

But either way, that doesn't matter. My disagreement with parent was only whether it's valuable to improve things like food delivery, and I pointed out that the food industry, in general, is incredibly important to most people's lives, so trying to improve it is a huge value to society.

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