See, "Why is Soda Cheaper Than Water?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nlkW16t5lM
It's probable the reason water costs that much for you is because people are still willing to pay that price for it.
Capitalism truly sucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nlkW16t5lM
It's probable the reason water costs that much for you is because people are still willing to pay that price for it.
Capitalism truly sucks.
Except the core premise is not true, so far as I can tell. To confirm this I went on Uber Eats, looked for chain restaurants near Salesforce Tower, and surveyed their beverage menus. At initial glance, most restaurants charged more for "water" than for soda. However, on further inspection this is because in those cases, the soda was dispensed from a fountain and the water was bottled. The latter obviously would cost more than the former, because of the cost of having to transport individual bottles. This can hardly be attributed to "Capitalism truly sucks". Furthermore, in cases where a soda fountain is available, the restaurant is legally mandated to provide the water to you for free[1], which makes the cost of water in those places $0. Of the places that only sell bottled beverages (there's surprisingly few):
* California Pizza Kitchen charges the same for water as for canned soda, and gives you more water[2]
* Chipotle Mexican Grill's cheapest beverage is bottled water[3]. The second cheapest option? San Pellegrino sparkling water, shipped all the way to California from Italy.
That said, the economic principle of "thing x costs more because people are willing to pay for it" is probably true (see for instance, airfare that's bought late), but this isn't one of those cases.
[1] All restaurants are technically supposed to, but having a soda fountain virtually guarantees that they can't weasel out of it by saying that they only serve bottled beverages and don't have cups for serving tap water
[2] https://www.ubereats.com/store/california-pizza-kitchen-53-t...
[3] https://www.ubereats.com/store/chipotle-mexican-grill-211-su...
What do you mean? I'm not arguing that cheaper water options don't exist- just that the fact that you seem to be surrounded by said options doesn't mean that everyone is.
The video may very well be true for certain regions, it's absolutely not a universal fact or rule of any kind, but I proposed it as a possible explanation, in an attempt to be helpful.
Actually, the exact wording used by the video is a "service station". Luckily uber eats also delivers from those, and after sampling some in my area I can say that the statement is also false for them.
Of course, you can't prove a negative. However, considering that the video just asserts the fact without evidence, and I actually have hard numbers, I think it's fair to say that we can tentatively conclude that the statement is false. I suppose you could make the argument that the actual claim isn't that the phenomena is widespread or common, but that it merely exists. However, that wouldn't make sense in the context of the original comment, which uses that video to conclude "Capitalism truly sucks". If most establishments are pricing water and soda "correctly", and there's a few outliers that don't, it doesn't make much sense to cite that and conclude "Capitalism truly sucks".
I think capitalism sucks, not because there is not a single place on earth where it is detrimental, but because there are plenty of places where it is. There are obviously the big offenders - the faceless megacorporations in the US and stuff like that. It's not like I'm saying it's impossible to get capitalism to work. I'm just saying that it sucks that it incentivizes stuff like this to happen, even if it doesn't happen everywhere.
and remember... "most establishments" in your area. Some people, live in different areas than you, and the relative price difference is not necessarily the same worldwide.
I don't want to repeat it again, so I hope this explanation is good enough. Just because the video isn't true for you doesn't mean it can't possibly be useful to anyone, if they happen to be in an area where water is more expensive and they're trying to figure out why.
But really, your argument just doesn't make sense to me. It feels sort of like "works on my machine", except it's "water isn't more expensive in my area". Mh.
Olive oil from California is also much cheaper than Olive Oil from Italy.
In both cases, it's up to you to decide if you think there is any actual quality difference, and if such a thing is worth money to you.
Alternatively, the soviets usually only had one (maybe two-three if it was military equipment) brands or models for any one thing. So there is that alternative.
Where do you buy cheap Californian olive oil? Whenever I’ve seen it for sale (rarely) it’s always a more premium product available only in medium sized glass bottles while Italian olive oil is available in large plastic containers.
If you go to Safeway.com, there are clearly a couple different ‘markets’ or sub-verticals in olive oil. Glass bottle ‘fancy’, plastic jug ‘bulk’, and large metal jug/tin ‘medium fancy bulk’.
Looking at the sub-categories, it it seems like Italian extra virgin is typically about 2x in price of Californian equivalents within a given sub-category, but there are some Californian brands coming close to equivalent.
Like Californian wines vs French.
Each sub-category for oil has its equivalent of 2 buck chuck of course.
There was a period of time where I did switch to water, when I first started my ADHD medication. And you're right, even though I didn't find the water "tasty", I was perfectly fine drinking it and just using the feeling of it instead of the taste.
It did take a while even after the meds stopped working for me to switch back to soda. I think it actually happened just because we ran out of water bottles and I was still thirsty. Which I guess proves that I still have thirst at least.
How many different places have you had tap water? The tap water in SoCal, west Texas, Seattle, and Hawaii all have distinctive tastes. Or have you tried distilled or R/O water?