[imachine1980_]

this literally happens in mexico, monterrey in 2022 during biggest drought in the century, public supply was shut down while coca-cola keep producing soft drink from that reservoir, they end-up give some percentage back after a protest.

https://www.jornada.com.mx/2022/08/06/estados/022n1est

[ryandrake]

Wow, I try to come up with an exaggerated hypothetical and it turns out to be a real example. We live in a ridiculous world.

[throw0101c]

> We live in a ridiculous world.

Let The Market™ decide on access to drinking water:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_privatization

[cluckindan]

Look up artisanal oil refining.

[HaZeust]

That's why I haven't taken life so seriously and been as uptight about things in recent years; because life sure as hell doesn't take us serious lol

[thaumasiotes]

Your hypothetical involved Coca-Cola directing the service cutoff. It doesn't sound like that was real.

[create-username]

We live in societies where private corporations are

[r00fus]

Late-stage capitalism - the future is now.

[Retric]

That’s not literally the same thing, it was a protest over them for not “connect wells of their property to the public service supply network.”

Which isn’t something I’d want random companies to be doing, and a figurative drop in the bucket.

[int_19h]

It's the same aquifer though, right?

[NewJazz]

One drop in an empty bucket is infinitely more water.

[FredPret]

Are you in an alternate dimension where Snow Crash literally happened?!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

[lelandfe]

Burbclaves coming next: https://www.wired.com/story/startup-nations-donald-trump-leg...

[mystraline]

Its one of the reasons why I am a market based socialist.

The essentials of living should be state owned, and provided as inexpensively or freely as part of being here. And when that doesn't completely work, significant controls be put in place to prevent undue capitalization/financial ideation.

The next tier should be a middle ground of intermediate importance, that companies can fulfill, but with modest controls to allow suitable profit and growth.

The final tier is the new and not-required level. This is the new stuff, the crazy tech. Low/no laws, let everyone in this realm go crazy and experiment. The skies the limit.

But water? This is beyond the pale. And revolutions have gone on for this before.

[robertlagrant]

I might've got a bad translation, but :

> the parastatal Water and Drainage Services of Monterrey

Isn't that already the state owning the water supply?