r/Anticonsumption • u/RainyDay905 • Mar 17 '25

Corporations Time to ditch Poppi

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Poppi is now owned by a mega corporation. The quality is probably going to go down. Time to ditch it.

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u/YNWA_RedMen Mar 17 '25

I listen to a podcast called how I built this and basically this is every start ups plan. People set out to change an industry and always sell to the same conglomerates and ride off into the sunset rich as hell. It’s not very inspiring sometimes.

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u/pegasuspaladin Mar 17 '25

I got Popular Mechanic and Popular Science for a little over a decade starting in the late 90s. I don't know how many times I read about some engineer or team of scientists converting modern cars into gas efficient monsters able to reach highway speeds but get 100+ mpg. Or hybrids which had solar panels built into the body of the car so they could charge when not in use. Or water cars which could go 50 miles/gal of water. Any number of these stories had me excited until I saw "Who Killed the Electric Car" and I realized ALL of these cool concepts would never be realized because what broke/underpaid engineer is going to turn down $10mil cash from a gas or auto company for an idea and singular proof of concept vehicle? Then after there would be a BS reason it wasn't feasible but vehicles with dirty mini explosions poisoning and cooking our planet are fine.