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This app lets restaurants and coffee shops charge to use the bathroom (techcrunch.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Just why.

Seriously why does it seem over the last 15 years public toilets are becoming rarer it's a mystery to me. Like the world population is growing a lot and we pay more taxes then ever, but it's harder to relieve yourself in public then ever.

And now businesses are trying to monetize the few toilets in public we still have.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Innovative disruptions in previously non-monetized parts of life are the life fuel of our economy.
Really excited how to see how this will innovate human interaction in the years to come!
/hj

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

These are conserted efforts to reduce the presence of "undesirables", also known as homeless or unhoused, in the areas without public bathrooms.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well the problem with public facilities is they allow people who are not rich enough to take a piss to take a piss, while depriving shareholders and Silicon Valley ~~assholes~~ entrepreneurs of profits. Before you know it you've got communism, and then everyone has a place to live and a toilet from which no one gets rich.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

As rents go up, businesses want to maximize their return on space. So some businesses get rid of toilets, meaning the ones that keep them pay to have toilets available for people that aren't their customers, making them consider closing them, creating a vicious cycle.