“Why do you sell these pills?” asked the little prince.
The clerk said to save time. Experts had calculated that a pill to quench thirst would save you 53 minutes a week.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://spectrummagazine.org/article/sarah-fust%25c3%25a9/2014/05/23/little-prince-and-silly-kingdoms-grown-ups