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PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well. (brandsownedby.com)
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[–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I do, but they don't own Coke. And my tap water comes from my tap.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago

Coke isn't much better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HFZ3cH1UAI

Gosh I'm jelly though, I'm in the UK and tap water used to be drinkable, but now it's more hydrocarbon than hydrogen dioxide these days. Joy of privatised utilities eh?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And my tap water comes from my tap.

Every glass is profit stolen from the daddy Capital 🐸

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Lol. That said, there are multiple companies involved in producing that tap water. So somebody is profiting from that glass of water, it's just a lot less than the bottled stuff.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think we are quite there yet... water is generally municipal.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Right, but there will be contractors and whatnot involved in the process, and there is certainly commercial equipment used in the process.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 4 hours ago

that's how mixed market economies work, yes