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Regardless of the research, I think what’s not discussed is how the choices around these devices are typically made by a single owner of a business. As the popu
by sbr464 7y ago
Regardless of the research, I think what’s not discussed is how the choices around these devices are typically made by a single owner of a business. As the population continues to increase, and people generally become more educated and these types of experiences have more value, how could we come up with either solutions to the core issue, or solutions to give more funds to a business owner who would gladly install a better solution if those funds were available?
Taking a sample of a hundred random people, especially in a larger city, their values (however ranked) are wildly different, yet one person likely made the decision on the dryer, dependent still on the strengths of the local paper (janitorial supplies) company’s salesperson.
Currently, there isn’t a micro donation or registry (wedding registry) type framework where people can influence these decisions. Something similar could be in store?
Even Kickstarter, while it allows popular ideas to move forward, doesn’t allow these types of decisions to be influenced.
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- brians 7y agoMicro donations? I think this is implemented by the legislature in the building code. If you’d like to run a restaurant, you must have restrooms with N urinals and M stalls per space of occupancy. Each restroom must contain K sinks per facility. You must provide drying apparatus. Once the towel-squeezers were legal; now they’re not. Dyson next.
- sbr464 7y agoI agree with you. That’s why I mentioned solving it at the core first or creating a new type of framework that enabled influencing these decisions at a local level, if the former (your point) fails. I’d also like to point out that the hostility on choice and applicable laws still fallback to a single Jill or Jack, when 100k people may end up using their bathroom. It’s the current reality, laws don’t exist at this detail, except for extremes.
- raquo 7y agoIf your question is how to fix negative externalities, the answer is "regulation". Otherwise... you can't make people care about every little thing in their lives. Sure we can solve this hand dryer problem with an awareness campaign or microdonations or whatever. But what do we do for the other hundred thousand issues like this? Nobody has that much attention to spare on non crucial things. That's why we elect people to make these decisions for us. Many things are going to suck as long as our elections remain broken. That is a much harder problem to fix, but there is no way around it. Unregulated markets, no matter how innovative, do not always produce perfect outcomes. Basic conditions for and solutions to market failure have been known for more than a hundred years. It's not rocket science.