That Dinkum Thinkum

Train station today, the train's late, so I'm exploring the prices at a local kiosk.

Half a litre bottled water 2.9€, a small bottle of Coke 1.4 €, a can of beer 1.8€.

You gotta love this late stage #capitalism. A product which is essentially free costs more than other products containing 90% of it plus some drugs. And nobody seems to mind.

Mar 28 at 9:15pmWeb
Show threadMara TankMar 29
@bigz hey, where are you?
In Europe, stations and airports are starting to provide free drinkable water taps to fill up your own bottle :)
Show threadThat Dinkum ThinkumMar 29

@Mara_Tank
In Europe I have seen refilling station only at airports, and even so not easy to find. Maybe they expanded recently to stations, but I haven't yet seen any.

In e.g. SE Asia refilling stations are everywhere. Here it's either a humiliatingly undeveloped infrastructure, or it's a business model to make us buy bottled water or, you know, drugs in form of sugar and alcohol...

Show threadMara TankMar 29
@bigz both reasons are true in my opinion 😁 time to put pressure on all public places to provide free water.