To be fair: People used to argue that Nuclear would get much cheaper and so cheap and safe that you could even power your car with it. They thought that everyone would have their own nuclear reactor at home giving them close to infinite cheap and clean energy.

That didn't exactly turn out that way.

That's the issue with using future developments as an argument. We don't really know where the future leads the technology and which limitations will be overcome with development and which ones won't.

There are thousands of cool things that were posed to become the future revolution. Some of them did, many more of them didn't.

20 years ago, hydrogen fuel cell cars were to become the future. Now the technology is completely dead.

From a current tech standpoint economy of scale is not nearly enough to get the price of lab meat to the price of animal meat. The ingredients are just much more complex and thus expensive.

From a future tech standpoint, who knows? Could be that some revolutionary breakthrough happens. Or could be that it doesn't. And if it doesn't, it won't get cheaper.

That guy was right. And if we completely switched over and ignored the fear campaigns promoted by coal/oil/gas we’d have one of the safest and greenest electrical grids.

1,000×? That’s ancient history. In 2013, yeah, the first cultured burger was $330,000 (Wikipedia). Now?

SuperMeat is running full 25,000 L tanks at $11.79/lb (Green Queen, AgFunderNews) — that’s premium chicken territory, not sci-fi pricing.

Believer Meats is modeling $6.20/lb with TFF tech (Green Queen) — organic chicken prices.

Average industry cost right now is $17–23/lb (Katie Couric Media) and even a conservative academic model puts big-scale production at $28.50/lb (ScienceDirect). Still single-digit multiples, not thousands.

So no — we’re not talking “someday maybe.” We’re already at 2–4× conventional chicken for the best setups, and the price curve is still falling. Will it ever be cheaper than farm-grown? Maybe, maybe not — inefficiency is real. But “never” is a bet against tech that’s already crushed costs by over 99.99% in a decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosa_Meat

https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/supermeat-cultivated-lab-grown-meat-cost-process

https://agfundernews.com/supermeat-offers-glimpse-into-a-future-where-cultivated-meat-can-be-produced-at-scale-for-11-79-lb

https://katiecouric.com/news/sustainability/what-is-lab-grown-meat-benefits-and-challenges

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666154322000916

In my case it’s the pea protein isolates. That burger spent so little time in my belly that I doubt I digested much of it.

edit: pea proteins are a known problem for my family

If cutting profit per sale in half results in 2.5x more sales they will.

Yes capitalists are profit maximisers.

However, many competing producers will minimise the cost to consumers.

This is true of any technology ever developed.