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Neither, really. I'm a developer and nothing in front of me is completely new, but taking a product from idea to completion has a fair amount of Coastline Paradox involved. Not looking for a "how do I do this" solution, more along the lines of, if I want to tackle this, here's a list of tasks I'll need to make sure to cover.

For example, creating a user account creation flow is easy enough, right? You just need a form for a username and password. And password complexity checking (client-side for UX, and server-side for security). And something like bcrypt server-side for hashing (and make sure to follow best-practices in hashing and storing). And you'll want to verify emails to cut down on spam, so you'll need some sort of way to send emails, probably a service because rolling your own email server is....a lot. Oh and where are you going to actually store the user data? MySQL/PostgreSQL or something like NoSQL? Managed database, or are you going to handle the setup, backups, hardening, etc yourself?

Congratulations, we've finished creating a user account! Except for password reset, session authentication tokens, rate-limiting login attempts, CAPTCHAs, and everything around the admin side of handling bad actors (account suspension, IP and/or email blocklists, etc etc etc). ;)

This is one hell of a strawman. You know the "carefully donated" money doesn't just end up in a black hole, right?

Do you mean the Industrial Revolution? I think there were other factors at play besides the amount of public spending.

"Society creates government, not the other way around..."

And government supports and enriches society. It's symbiotic, not parasitic.

"claim credit for what people have created on their own"

Nobody creates anything on their own. Full stop. Every single citizen is supported by countless public infrastructure initiatives, from transportation to safety to education to etc etc, without which no significant achievement would be possible.

If your tofu is tasteless, you're doing it wrong. One of the major perks of tofu is that it absorbs flavor really well.

"The cravings are a psychological reflex of remembering something you liked the taste, nutritious or not."

Nailed it. We used to have summer dinners at my grandparents when I was a kid, complete with grilled burgers. It is, in large part, emotional.

I'm hoping the Burger King trial goes well so we can get nationwide expansion, in large part to help bring the price down. That premium is still a little rough, Impossible is in a lot of restaurants but doesn't have the in-store presence that Beyond Meat has at the moment. Scale, scale, scale!

"First: The vegetarians that I know don't like meat."

Hi, nice to meet you! Vegan for almost a decade, the smell of a burger on the grill in the summer gives me hella cravings. We exist.

"Second: When I tasted an Impossible Burger, it was awful. It tasted like a horrible veggie burger."

I'm jealous, you must not have ever eaten a truly horrible veggie burger. I had a Gardenburger in like 2005 that literally tasted like cardboard. The Impossible Burger is a miracle of science.

Yes, it is better! Part of the goal is to provide a "gateway patty" to make it easier for meat-eaters to reduce their consumption. Good for their health, good for the environment, good for the animals.

(Also, I've been vegan for years and _love_ the Impossible burger.)

This is false and serious FUD. There are a handful of vitamins/minerals that aren't found in meat-free diets (B12 is the big one) but they're all easily covered by fortified foods and/or taking a daily multivitamin. "Protein from animals" is absolutely not critical, and protein is found in all sorts of meatless sources. Nuts, leafy greens, etc.