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Not just health costs, but environment too. Why must we collectively be ok with enabling a profit margin on sugar water that requires factories, immense material resources to transport (cans, bottles) and prioritized placement in global distribution?

The entire grift of the last few decades has been “externalize costs of our mess on the next generation for massive profit.” That’s unheard of. Until the last ~100 years the previous generations messes removed themselves in decades. Ours is such that it may wipe out the species

I am very OK with the masses having direct control over how the global trade system we collectively build is allowed to impact the one planet humans can survive on.

All that production and disposal of aluminum & plastic to carry sugar water one can make at home with simple syrup and flavoring.

At some point we have to force ourselves to look beyond the emotional masturbation we’ve all been subjected to by TV & parents if society is going to move along.

That’s exactly how’s it’s moved along in the past. A true free market of ideas demands it.

We need to get nation states on board and in order to do that must tell aristocrats that the future has no place for them.