Being (perceived as) healthy has been a factor in social status since antiquity. For every status competition, you are going to find people who are willing to pay for high perceived status.
While the product categories differ, the exorbitant price asked makes this 'raw water' target the same demography: those who have more money than sense and those who use these products for the purpose of affluence signalling.
Why not simply use pure osmisis water, then add in some friendly pro-biotics and minerals. All the upside, no down-slime. I'll call it: Engineered Unfiltered Water. Who's with me?
I'll even add a weight loss tape worm as a $100 DLC. Ultra-gut-cleanse Giardia for $300.
Sure, let's throw away decades of improvements to public water supplies--undoubtedly the safest they've ever been in human history--to sell dirty, likely contaminated water. This man is mentally ill.
I've got several antique sealed glass carafes decanted from the Broad Street pump circa 1854... as an added bonus, I'll throw in the original lead stoppers.
I know the NYT article said “Silicon Valley” but these “Live” guys are in LA and everybody they talked to was in Marin and SF.
The valley suburbia has its own looney pretentious (mostly boring nimbyism, honestly) but this kind of crap seems to get traction only where the anti-vaxxers hang out.
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 46.3 ms ] threadI'll even add a weight loss tape worm as a $100 DLC. Ultra-gut-cleanse Giardia for $300.
Any takers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16040540
This is literally straight from Idiocracy.
The valley suburbia has its own looney pretentious (mostly boring nimbyism, honestly) but this kind of crap seems to get traction only where the anti-vaxxers hang out.