Really? You’re gonna tell me cartels and monopolies don’t exist when 10 companies control nearly the entire food and beverage industry? [0] What good is it being able to choose among 195 brands of bottled water [1] when there’s not much of a difference among them? Is this what all our productivity is going towards? Or maybe it’s all that advertising they drown us in to convince us to buy this stuff?

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[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/10-companies-control-the-foo...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottled_water