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So you can pay for toilets, but you choose to use free toilets. You're making these free toilets worse by your usage and creating incentive for them to become p
by fiatjaf 10y ago
So you can pay for toilets, but you choose to use free toilets. You're making these free toilets worse by your usage and creating incentive for them to become paid, only making things worse for those who cannot pay.
- kodfodrasz 10y agoBasically this was the mechanism the USA won the cold war against the USSR. Now almost all former socialist states are capitalist, because they went bankrupt.
- Normal_gaussian 10y agoThat makes no sense. You are saying that the USSR went bankrupt because people were trying to use things in it for free? Surely it has a lot more to do with the political oppression and top down control of the economy.
- kodfodrasz 10y agoPeople in this topic are arguing for free toilets paid by the government. Now what is that if not a top down control of economy?
- Normal_gaussian 10y agoThey aren't preventing private toilets - free or otherwise - being created. Pretty simple.
- Normal_gaussian 10y agoThat initially sounds like it makes sense, but in reality it doesn't. For any bathroom facility there is already a relatively fixed regular cost being applied to maintain them. As free bathrooms are nearly always funded by community purses their existence is justified by usage, whereas paid bathrooms are nearly always funded by commercial entities which justify their existence with profit.