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Honestly — how is this not just simple stealth product placement?

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You’re seriously going to buy one of these? You think anyone here is?

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These are institutional devices. Place where I work has the good work one and I like that but it’s still a product even if I’m not personally going to buy it.

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Are you so deeply against “capitalism” that you’re against products as such?

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I assume this meme was originally made by some hydro homie with a special interest, since it’s not the type of product marketed to individuals.

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Totally agree. But separated from the hydrohomies group, some operations vp is looking at that thinking… “hmm… it’s time. I’ll call my guy.”

I mean the meme is kind of perfect for capitalism?

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I doubt the CEO cares about memes to market their water fountains. Especially on Lemmy, there’s ~40k ppl here and most would rather drink CEO blood over buying a water fountain.
I doubt people will buy a water fountain just because some people online think it’s funny, especially when 99% of their profits are for new buildings lol

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Imagine some VP spending more than 5min here before realizing how unwelcome they are, let alone making purchasing decisions off this.

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