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That is a real quote and absolutely fucking atrocious.
On the one hand, extremists think one of two things necessary for life should be a right.
On the other, I want to exploit those needs for personal gain.
...Times like these I wish I wasn't an atheist so I could find solace in the idea that they'd burn in hell. Instead they'll live a life of luxury while people die.
All these sociopaths just want personal gain, and don't realize that it makes us all lose. And when we all lose (at this stage of the game) we ALL lose!
Maybe they don't realize, but I don't think they would care either way.
The thing is, food should absolutely be a right, but also, food requires work to produce, water literally falls from the sky, comes out of a source by itself, and flows in a river. It's the most basic and natural of natural resources.
It will surprise you to hear, that food also is just there. It literally grows on trees
Lol no. There's no way we could sustain our current population without agriculture.
We also couldn't sustain our current population without water processing and distribution
And these fucks consider water a foodstuff... You don't do anything to water it just is.
Pepsi is a foodstuff, you make it. I don't claim a right to have Pepsi.
A hotdog is a foodstuff, you make it. I don't claim a right to have a hotdog.
Water is water... We literally need it to survive, even sooner than we need food. It's something like 7 days without water and you die, but at least 30 without food...
Food literally grows on its own. It can take work to produce but it literally just does that.
It’s a real quote, but it’s taken out of context.
The CEO was making the point that the municipal water supply should be priced to reduce water wastage, which does have merit (and most municipalities do price water). He was saying that people who oppose water pricing do so on the grounds that water is a human right, which he called an extreme position.
He never actually said that water isn’t a human right, just that he thinks making water free because it’s a human right is an “extreme position”. He later clarified that he believes having enough water to live is a human right, but beyond that, filling up a swimming pool is not a human right.
He was making this argument in the context of arguing for the privatization of the municipal water supply, which I do not agree with. But I don’t think he’s wrong to argue for water pricing.