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Anyone else find it mildly strange how such a huge portion of the economy functions solely on the production and consumption of terrible products such as soda?
by izzydata 7y ago
Anyone else find it mildly strange how such a huge portion of the economy functions solely on the production and consumption of terrible products such as soda?
- Chris_Chambers 7y agoIt’s retardation juice. You have to keep people in a permanent malnutrition-induced malaise of retardation to grease the path for them to accept all of the even worse things you want to throw at them.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoI'm more worried about the huge supporting portion of the economy that is advertising. Seems to have much more harmful effects on everything around us, including but not limited to making people consume more terrible products such as soda than they otherwise would.
- darkpuma 7y agoSugar and caffeine, it's addictive twice over. Although that also describes another beverage, coffee. The difference between the coffee and soft drink industries is interesting though. Two massive corporations dominate almost the entire soft drink industry, with a handful of minor providers (notably Keurig Dr Pepper) and a long tail of much smaller 'boutique', novelty, or regional brands. Comparatively, no coffee company controls as much of the industry as either the Coca Cola Company or PepsiCo do. (Also, PepsiCo in particular owns a ton of other non-beverage brands. Their subsidiary Frito-Lay produces the brands Lay's, Cheetos, Doritos, etc. PepsiCo is huge for American consumers. To your point though, snack food isn't much better than sugar water.)
- sneak 7y agoPop isn’t a terrible product. The issue, like anything, is overuse. You can make the same argument for anything, from butter to guns to video games to literally anything that plugs into the wall and consumes electricity. Use anything beyond reason and it becomes destructive.