A bit tired of Reddit's circle jerk hatred on this topic. If it upsets you that governments can't effectively price and operate public services at a profitable margin, then you are going to be upset when looking at all of the other government services which also function without the intent of profit. If the economics of public resources interests you, please look into a concept called the Tragedy of The Commons.

Public services paid for by governments benefit some people more than others. That's the way it is, it's been that way for a long time, everybody knows this, but for some reason when a company benefits from public services it's pitchfork worthy for Reddit. Why? Please consider the underlying principle at least.

Government services benefit different people in different ways; e.g., K-12 schools more directly benefit parents, while parks benefit those who use them, just like how libraries benefit people who visit, and you may not "technically" be getting your monies worth if you don't use any of these things directly. But this has been the basic structure of cities for a long time and is a big argument for privatization of these public goods if it bothers you so much. What's the difference between a local gym (with showers, fountains, swimming pools, hot tubs, etc.) paying property taxes, versus a Nestle water plant paying property taxes? The scale at which they are consuming water? At some arbitrary line, they are somehow worthy of criticism? Why? There are other examples of governmental expenses benefiting people differently.

Are you going to fault teachers because they profit from government schools? Are you going to protest Microsoft or Apple selling computer products to schools? What about all of the businesses that service public schools, are they evil too? How is Nestle different from other companies that profit off the public supply of government services in every one of your local cities, counties or states? Do car companies not profit when your city, park services or police forces purchase automobiles? Come on, grow up.

Your local plumber fixing government bathrooms in a local school is no different (in principle) than a big company selling their services to local governments. Just because a company is large and well known should not change whether or not something is right or wrong; but so often that is the case on Reddit. If "scale" or "size of operation" changes your opinion then you might be missing fundamental principles. Municipalities also usually reserve the right to accept or deny business licenses, not to mention building permits; so if they thought a water bottling plant or whatever was not good for the local community, then local authorities DO have some control over it. Please put down your pitchforks. This topic is really old and repetitive.