This title is horrible, and the article is even worse.
Don't waste your time with the editorial, just watch the video.
What he said is:
"Privatize the 'normal' water supply for the population as it is not a public right"
Nowhere did he say "human right" and nowhere did he say that "all" water should be privatized, just the supply, which is not "rivers and rain" it's the water supply, which is cleaned, delivered, and on-demand in homes. the "supply" not "water", two different things.
And if you watch the whole video he goes on to say that as the CEO of such a large corporation he has a duty to ensure it's existence because corporations actively participate in solutions of the problems in the world, that they create jobs, (1.2 million directly dependent jobs for Nestle alone) and over 4.5 million if you add in spouses and children,
His whole point is that clean safe water that is delivered to your home should have a price, mostly because it takes millions of people to deliver clean water to your home and without a price on it, it would never be delivered. Because a million people wouldn't get up each day to deliver that water to your home if they weren't getting paid.
Go out and catch rain, or get a bucket and go to the river. That is your right
You have no right to go to the store and grab a bottle of Fiji and walk, and when the cops stop you say "It's water, it's my right",
This joker wants for-profit corporations to control our main source of water? Hell to the no.
Then let a government control it? Seems equally as fucked up.
If someone, or some corporation wants to run tubes all around a city and then pump clean water through those tubes, and hire a ton of people to make sure everything is working properly, How on earth is it possibly to do all that for free?
It's more efficient for one organization to run the entire infrastructure, but that makes it a monopoly, so it's important to make it a public utility to prevent price gouging. It's not free, you pay a utility bill.
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erietemperance ago
This title is horrible, and the article is even worse.
Don't waste your time with the editorial, just watch the video.
What he said is:
"Privatize the 'normal' water supply for the population as it is not a public right"
Nowhere did he say "human right" and nowhere did he say that "all" water should be privatized, just the supply, which is not "rivers and rain" it's the water supply, which is cleaned, delivered, and on-demand in homes. the "supply" not "water", two different things.
And if you watch the whole video he goes on to say that as the CEO of such a large corporation he has a duty to ensure it's existence because corporations actively participate in solutions of the problems in the world, that they create jobs, (1.2 million directly dependent jobs for Nestle alone) and over 4.5 million if you add in spouses and children,
His whole point is that clean safe water that is delivered to your home should have a price, mostly because it takes millions of people to deliver clean water to your home and without a price on it, it would never be delivered. Because a million people wouldn't get up each day to deliver that water to your home if they weren't getting paid.
Go out and catch rain, or get a bucket and go to the river. That is your right
You have no right to go to the store and grab a bottle of Fiji and walk, and when the cops stop you say "It's water, it's my right",
Ina_Pickle ago
Bottled water is not the "normal" method of water delivery to homes in first world countries. That would be government controlled utilities.
Utilities charge based on what it costs to clean and pump the water.
This joker wants for-profit corporations to control our main source of water? Hell to the no.
erietemperance ago
Then let a government control it? Seems equally as fucked up.
If someone, or some corporation wants to run tubes all around a city and then pump clean water through those tubes, and hire a ton of people to make sure everything is working properly, How on earth is it possibly to do all that for free?
LOLATU ago
It's more efficient for one organization to run the entire infrastructure, but that makes it a monopoly, so it's important to make it a public utility to prevent price gouging. It's not free, you pay a utility bill.
Johnham ago
Do you get a Utility bill? Water isn't free.
DickHertz ago
Obviously they can't but how is that an argument for a for-profit company to do the job?