How many people have diabetes because of their Coca-Cola addiction? How many people are overweight and hate their bodies because of all of the non-nutritious sugars they have drank?

And they have the audacity to not only charge several dollars a pop for their sodas, but to also bottle water in the exact same plant and charge the exact same price for the water they have bottled that they do for their sodas.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

several dollars a pop

Nice.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Externalities with no direct impact on the company? No way! Milton Friedman assured me that capitalism was perfectly balanced with 0 exploits!

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Why, the free market can solve externalities! We just need an economy with

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negligible transaction costs. Easy, any day now!

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't blame a soda company of you being fat and chugging 130 calories down 12 ounces at a time. Own up to your own shit. "This item tastes good. I blame it for ne being unhealthy because I won't stop eating/drinking too much of it"

[–] KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts 9 points 1 month ago

In isolation that is true, but it's not a fair game. Own up to your own shit when They lobby against restrictions in schools to target children with their addictive substances. They have marketing budgets in the hundreds of millions to convince us one more won't hurt. They employ psychologists to come up with the most manipulative strategys.

It's not a level playing field.