"}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJust came up with a great business idea: people are always talking about throwing things into volcanoes, right? Well why not a business that literally does that. With drones it wouldn\u2019t even be too hard or dangerous. You just find an active volcano \u2013 one with a permanent lava lake \u2013 in some country without many environmental regulations, have people mail you their unwanted belongings (old photographs of exes, etc.) and then use a drone to drop them in from a few hundred feet up. Maybe attach a camera so they can see it happen. You\u2019ll lose a lot of drones, but you can price that in. It\u2019d probably be pretty expensive, maybe $1000 a drone load, but then you wouldn\u2019t need that many customers to make it workable. I bet you could find a few hundred people a year willing to make a gesture like that, easy. It would be very Instagrammable, as they say.
People would burn books they disagree with and there would be Discourse. The Discourse would, however, be good for business.
\nSome Christian would pay to have some LGBT books dumped into the fire. This would, of course, create tons of controversy. All of which would increase name recognition and brand profile. Some atheists would have religious texts burned, and the mirror would happen, with Christians being outraged. It would also be good for business.
\nThen, people would have effigies of politicians burned. You\u2019d get banned in China and similar countries. That would also be good for business, in the countries you weren\u2019t banned from. (Perhaps you\u2019d be banned in some EU countries under some nebulous \u201ccausing offense\u201d law. Being close to banned under that law, but not quite banned, would be the ideal state of affairs.)
\nI am sure that a few people would want their remains volcanoed after they died. This would also be good for business; the news stories write themselves.
\nMaybe, you\u2019d want to court the controversial customers right off the bat; imagine how much business you could get if only someone would pay for a confederate flag to be volcanoed. You\u2019d make the news for sure.
\nBut that\u2019s the thing; even without any controversy-boosts, \u201cservice that dumps things into an active volcano\u201d already would have articles written about it. Seems like a great business. Get on it, Severa.
\nNGL, this is the most actually viable business idea I\u2019ve ever come up with and if I had 2 ounces of courage I\u2019d go for it.
I\u2019d call it \u201cCreative Destruction\u201d.