[imsofuture]

People don't trust a random pipe that serves up free water literally because of the business model of selling a basic commodity like water.

"Ewww look at that dirty TAP water ugh, get some beautiful island fresh water in this bottle!" Of course, it's the same water anyway, but now someone has made money off it.

Capitalism (and since saying that word makes people so mad, let's say "capital seeking behavior" instead) is so hilariously perverse, we've now got advertisement supported tap water, because we advertised tap water v1.0 into obsolescence. And then realized tap water v2.0 (bottled water) actually had unintended consequences (plastic). So THIS time it'll work! Tap Water v3.0!

[erikpukinskis]

I agree with you, but it doesn’t really matter.

As a group, we can’t go backwards in the Hegelian dialectic, only forward.