Please don't pay to use a pay toilet
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Please don't pay to use a pay toilet
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#2Apparently they can make a decent amount of money, roughly 50% profit:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/07/train-statio...
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#3Most Americans under a certain age have probably never heard of a pay toilet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets_i...
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#4This framing is ridiculous. The water, power, toilet paper, fixtures, etc., cost money to provide. Someone is always paying for the toilet.
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#5Pay toilets are super annoying, and very common in Europe. Still, even if you are in NYC, it's hard to find a "free" toilet. Most of the time you have to go to a restaurant, buy something, and then you'll get the key.
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#6I don't know where pay toilets even exist, or if they're public or private. Wouldn't the alternatives be the absence of a given toilet or a tax-funded toilet? If the latter, the poor could pay disproportionately due to various tax dodging avenues available only to the rich.
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#7As with any ideology, I don't think this is one size fits all. The alternative to a paid bathroom isn't free bathrooms, it's no bathrooms. I think anyone who's lived a city that smells like piss, or anyone who's needed to take a piss when everything was closed, would love there to be paid bathrooms.
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#8Most Americans under a certain age have probably never heard of a pay toilet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets_i...
Still very common overseas (e.g. most public toilets in China are pay, even in large shopping malls).
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#9Most Americans under a certain age have probably never heard of a pay toilet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets_i...
Aren't these quite common in Europe still? I'm 25 and American and have paid for toilets several times (I even remember having to pay at a McDonalds in Washington, DC back when I was really little).
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#10When traveling in Germany, pay toilets were one of the things I liked. I don't like going into some place of business to use their toilet without buying something. It was actually cheaper for me to use a pay toilet. Furthermore, they were easy to find, clean, and well maintained.