I don't know, I kind of agree more with the first meme. For most of human history, washing spoons have been much cheaper than replacing them. It's genuinely a new development that replacing them has become cost-competitive.
I'd be more inclined to treat the "pretty amazing" as genuine though — it's very impressive that the cost of production has gotten so low relative to the value of human time. (At least in rich countries.)
Just lick it clean and leave it to air dry - no muss no fuss, no fancy products of modernity required.
Just use your hands to eat; they'll naturally clean themselves by abrasion with surfaces they subsequently touch.
Of course, another option is to go to your local river/lake/beach, rub some sand over it, rinse and let it dry. Definitely a lot more effort.
Nice. I expected something about the concave shape of the spoon though which makes it difficult to remove sticky foods without a suitably shaped brush (you can't just wipe it over an edge like a knife).
For some inspiration, put both memes side by side and listen to Landsailor. (The mechanism by which one listens to it, in turn, is also complex. I love civilisation.)
A friend of mine recently shared this:
I've seen it go by dozens of times since Max Tempkin [1] made it back in 2011, and each time it grated on me: why count the complexity of creating the disposable spoon, but not the complexity of washing it? Instead of phrasing my disagreement as a comment, though, I decided to make a new version:
You know the thing where you see something on Facebook, start reading it or composing a reply, and then you lose it? Yeah. I can't remember which of my friends shared this, and Facebook's limited-by-design searching didn't turn it up either. So, being unable to post my counter-meme in the appropriate place, I'll just leave it here until the next time I come across the original.
[1] Also known for co-designing Cards Against Humanity, from which he resigned in disgrace in June 2020.
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