https://twitter.com/notwokieleaks/status/949808828446597120
Dear God now I wish I had gotten in on the ground floor.
LiveWater will set you back twenty bucks a gallon. The people of Jefferson County, Oregon are paying about 1/3rd of a cent for precisely the same water. Only, you know, it’s fresher in Jefferson County. But, hey: the people at the Deschutes Valley Water District (the folks bottling the spring water) are protecting that spring like ornithologists protect the California Condor*, including regularly checking their watery goose and its aqueous eggs, so I suppose that the people who drink LiveWater don’t have to be painted mauve after all.
But if we could maybe paint them green, instead? I mean, it’d make it easier for the people who want to sell them other stuff at a… 606028% markup? I may have done the math wrong. It’s a blessed lot of money, but then perhaps it really should be going back into circulation after all. I mean, God help us all if those people tried to do something meaningful with that cash.
Moe Lane
*They do chlorinate the water from time to time. Presumably they’d do more if they had to.
Can’t actually calculate the markup until you get the cost of the containers, and bottling & shipping costs… but it’s definitely in the neighborhood of “I’m taking your lunch money, your bus fare, and anything you’ve got on you that I might be able to sell, or burn for warmth.”
I’m a little disappointed that this turned out to be a ripoff instead of fake.