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> Most of these people are not cut off from the world. You will find a coca-cola bottle in the same village! This! And this has been true for the last 40 years
by orsenthil 1y ago
> Most of these people are not cut off from the world. You will find a coca-cola bottle in the same village!
This! And this has been true for the last 40 years, when more people didn't have access to water. This just shows how a few people care for the rest, and majority fall along. This was with Cola-Cola from 1980s.
Today, it is with information. More people have access to bad news via WhatsApp (like Coke) than education (like safe drinking water).
- BowBun 1y agoGreat comparison. I'm willing to bet that Coke was happy to watch water scarcity continue to drive more people to drink their products. Likewise modern news organizations care less and less about the quality of the news, and more about engagement which results in junk which manipulates emotions.
- londons_explore 1y agoPeople going thirsty due to nestle buying it all for bottled water is a western media myth. It's true that plenty of people have water shortages, but those shortages prevent them from watering their crops - there's still plenty everywhere for drinking - which is what nestle is selling too! Bottled water is arguably the best thing in places where water is scarce, because very little is wasted, compared to piped systems where leaks account for far more water than what ends up getting drunk.