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Has anyone tried to make an SV startup-style company sell Japanese-type toilets in America? I think a lot of people would like them
Considering people keep toilets for 5-10 years per toilet on average and the cost of a toilet is much less than the cost of an electrical bidet... It is not a great idea.
Do you have any data to back this up? I would have assumed it was far less often.
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Considering people keep toilets for 5-10 years per toilet on average and the cost of a toilet is much less than the cost of an electrical bidet... It is not a great idea.
> people keep toilets for 5-10 years per toilet on average Do you have any data to back this up? I would have assumed it was far less often.
Has anyone tried to make an SV startup-style company sell Japanese-type toilets in America? I think a lot of people would like them
Considering people keep toilets for 5-10 years per toilet on average and the cost of a toilet is much less than the cost of an electrical bidet... It is not a great idea.
From personal experience that seems off by a few decades.
This makes me realize how freaking stupid we are as a nation/group-of-nations: There are issues/problems that are common to all. Especially common to ALL governments, societies, etc. Given a population of X and an infrastructure level of Y with purpose Z that are impacts ABC...N A=Cost B=Scale C=[whatever] N=... So - when you look at the cost of a nation, we assume that we have an infrastructure maturity/development…
You should visit Korea. This is exactly what happens. New cities are built around that new Samsung office, or that new army base, or that fake, pressured CBD. The cities surrounding the main capital of Korea are marvellous and are all made from scratch in the last 20 years. There is no better model of perfect city.
> "...may help end almost 500,000 infant deaths and save $233 billion annually in costs linked to diarrhea, cholera and other diseases..."
So I guess that's Bloomberg for you. 233 billion dollars is a way more interesting lede than a mere half a million lives.
But when you consider there are what, 3.5 billion or so males on the planet, the benefits of urinal hygiene add up pretty quickly.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/urinal-splashback-...
To an outsider, the animations look cool but the engine that drives the animation is cooler to software engineers.
Point being, this is not something a normal philanthropist would imagine being cool and awesome. This takes someone who actually cares about shit (in this case literally) to invest time and money into it.
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Considering people keep toilets for 5-10 years per toilet on average and the cost of a toilet is much less than the cost of an electrical bidet... It is not a great idea.
> people keep toilets for 5-10 years per toilet on average Do you have any data to back this up? I would have assumed it was far less often.
Toilets in my family would get replaced every 15 years.
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Good summary here: https://priceonomics.com/toilets/
Wow, solid link. Hopefully some clever entrepreneur will make it happen, someday