So the headline here had me focus on something that annoyed me. Oh and I should say, I'm neither Silicon Valley based or elite or interested in water beyond the normal scope of human survival :P
The implication "Silicon Valley elites" and that wonderful play in to confirmation bias that they're all out of touch, cash flushed weirdos, like that's just something people kind of want to believe especially in comment sections with article like these. And ok so I'm not setting out to disprove this, but this article and the one it links doesn't do the opposite either.
It makes some really spurious claims.
1. I'm going to ignore the price thing here, because it seems to be heavily reliant on one store just arbitrarily jacking up the price.
2. Silicon valley elites = The Juicero guy. And pretty much only the Juicero guy. He's the only one named and the only one that talks about it to anyone. There is a landscaper from Emeryville, but I'm going to claim that "elite" is probably not something they're going for.
3. "Flying off the shelves" The atribution for this is one store in San Deigo that opened three years ago. It's heavily dependent on these two paragraphs
"And Liquid Eden, a water store that opened in San Diego three years ago, offers a variety of options, including fluoride-free, chlorine-free and a “mineral electrolyte alkaline” drinking water that goes for $2.50 a gallon.
Trisha Kuhlmey, the owner, said the shop sells about 900 gallons of water a day, and sales have doubled every year as the “water consciousness movement” grows."
4. You can find "movements" for anything. Both articles talk about "raw" water movement like its this huge thing that is sweeping the bay area and will consume you all.
So I'm not saying this is definitely wrong, but it just looks like that business insider took one article of little value and several barely linked claims to come up with the title of
"Silicon Valley elites are spending $60 for less than 3 gallons of dangerous, unfiltered water — and it's flying off the shelves"
I mean the concept is stupid, but the articles talking about it doesn't feel like its doing much better.
The implication "Silicon Valley elites" and that wonderful play in to confirmation bias that they're all out of touch, cash flushed weirdos, like that's just something people kind of want to believe especially in comment sections with article like these. And ok so I'm not setting out to disprove this, but this article and the one it links doesn't do the opposite either.
It makes some really spurious claims.
1. I'm going to ignore the price thing here, because it seems to be heavily reliant on one store just arbitrarily jacking up the price.
2. Silicon valley elites = The Juicero guy. And pretty much only the Juicero guy. He's the only one named and the only one that talks about it to anyone. There is a landscaper from Emeryville, but I'm going to claim that "elite" is probably not something they're going for.
3. "Flying off the shelves" The atribution for this is one store in San Deigo that opened three years ago. It's heavily dependent on these two paragraphs
"And Liquid Eden, a water store that opened in San Diego three years ago, offers a variety of options, including fluoride-free, chlorine-free and a “mineral electrolyte alkaline” drinking water that goes for $2.50 a gallon.
Trisha Kuhlmey, the owner, said the shop sells about 900 gallons of water a day, and sales have doubled every year as the “water consciousness movement” grows."
4. You can find "movements" for anything. Both articles talk about "raw" water movement like its this huge thing that is sweeping the bay area and will consume you all.
So I'm not saying this is definitely wrong, but it just looks like that business insider took one article of little value and several barely linked claims to come up with the title of
"Silicon Valley elites are spending $60 for less than 3 gallons of dangerous, unfiltered water — and it's flying off the shelves"
I mean the concept is stupid, but the articles talking about it doesn't feel like its doing much better.