> Really? Most individual people don't lobby because they don't have the money to do it. Meta-comment but this is how all HN threads on topics like this turn o

> Really? Most individual people don't lobby because they don't have the money to do it. Meta-comment but this is how all HN threads on topics like this turn out: - Topic: Perpetual rights to all clean drinking water in Nigeria put up for auction - Half the thread: It’s nuts that rich people are able to just buy something that should be a basic human right - The other half: Excuse me, but who said that only rich people can buy these rights? There’s no law that is stopping them from buying this right. Regular people can crowdfund those $20B if they really want. Another option is for the citizens of Nigeria to vote with their feet and move to another country if access to clean drinking water is so important to them. And should clean drinking water be a human right anyway? What if we lived in the vacuum of space and there was no drinking water, huh? Didn’t think of that, did you. And human rights are basically tantamount to slavery since ...