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"Companies most at risk are Mondelez International, Mars Inc and Nestle, the top three candy makers, soda makers like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, and magazine publis
by marquis 13y ago
"Companies most at risk are Mondelez International, Mars Inc and Nestle, the top three candy makers, soda makers like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, and magazine publishers like Time Warner and Hearst Corp."
All companies that arguably are doing nothing for betterment of humanity. Perhaps this Internet fad is a good thing.
- twoodfin 13y agoIf you think humanity would be better off without the occasional ice cold Coca-Cola, I think you don't understand much about humans. We don't work just to 'better ourselves' as philosophers and artists, we work to enjoy things in life. Maybe Coca-Cola doesn't do it for you, but everyone else who enjoys it isn't necessarily brainwashed.
- marquis 13y agoWhen a bottle of coca-cola is cheaper than a bottle of water, yes I think that that company, out of many, deserves a little less market share.
- wcummings 13y agoI strongly suspect this has more to do with bottle water being overpriced (you're paying for convenience). Also, who cares that coca cola is cheaper? Why is that "bad for humanity?"
- twoodfin 13y agoBut that's not what you said. You claimed Coca-Cola was doing "nothing for the betterment of humanity". The billions of dollars people spend on their products suggest they're either providing some benefit or have brainwashed their customers. I guess I have a little more faith in humanity than you do.
- marquis 13y agoI urge you to step into a supermarket or corner store/dairy, in any country outside of an area of affluence. Are you familiar with the concept of Food Deserts? "Because of the Agriculture and Food policies soon people living in food deserts will have only a couple of food producers to choose from: Coca-Cola, Nestle, Kraft and Kellogg’s." http://saynotofoodwaste.org/2013/06/03/food-deserts/ http://saynotofoodwaste.org/2013/06/03/food-deserts/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
- twoodfin 13y agoCoca-cola disappears tomorrow and what happens to that food desert? It gets better? How?
- marquis 13y agoReally? You think it's OK that hundreds of thousands of people strangely only have access to pre-processed foodstuffs, because shipping and storage regulations, geographical distances, poverty etc mean they can't put fresh healthy items alongside their emblazoned Coca-Cola refrigerators? In rural areas like Mexico where tomatoes are left on the vine because NAFTA made it cheaper to buy U.S. vegetables and corn (thanks subsidies), and a bottle of water DOES cost more than a can of coke and it's still owned by Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola, Nestle, Kellogs, Kraft: they all make sugar water and empty calorie products, providing cheap consumables to the population thanks to agricultural subsides and tax breaks. There is nothing good, at all, about these companies and if they all disappeared tomorrow perhaps for a day or two we'd be oh! where's my coke! And then buy some caramel coloured pop from somewhere else. Do you miss Asbestos and CFCs? Weren't they convenient also?
- gaius 13y agoWhat you are missing there is that cost of the liquid is negligible compared to that of the logistics.
- marquis 13y agoThis is not a free market experience. Coca-Cola et al would not be able to afford to deliver to remote areas with the huge subsidies they are receiving. There are taxes then subsidies then taxes upon taxes you've already paid.. http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/65373/ http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/65373/