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diff --git a/content/entry/article-please-dont-pay-to-use-a-pay-toilet.md b/content/entry/article-please-dont-pay-to-use-a-pay-toilet.md index faaf40d..1c03f9b 100644 --- a/content/entry/article-please-dont-pay-to-use-a-pay-toilet.md +++ b/content/entry/article-please-dont-pay-to-use-a-pay-toilet.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Many countries both rich and poor still have pay toilets, toilets where the user I've heard pay toilets being touted as a solution to the shortage of free public toilets in some places. Why not remedy the situation by setting up new public toilets and paying for their sanitation, repairs, and restocking with taxes? That takes care of the problem of who pays for public toilets without excluding anybody. -Some people worry that having tax-funded public toilets is a [slippery slope](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope) that leads to either socializing all basic needs or the end of private business. It would be a good thing if the former were true, but clearly neither are. The U.S. has free public toilets, yet even healthcare is a for-profit business. Europe has a much better social safety net than the U.S., but it has more paid toilets. There doesn't seem to be any correlation. +Some people worry that having tax-funded public toilets is a [slippery slope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope) that leads to either socializing all basic needs or the end of private business. It would be a good thing if the former were true, but clearly neither are. The U.S. has free public toilets, yet even healthcare is a for-profit business. Europe has a much better social safety net than the U.S., but it has more paid toilets. There doesn't seem to be any correlation. Tax-funded public toilets will not be the end of capitalism. Neither will having socialized healthcare, food and housing programs, etc. We're not talking about giving everyone free weed. But in a civilized society, nobody should have to worry about meeting their basic biological needs. In a civilized society, "hitting rock bottom" shouldn't mean shitting on the street, dying of Covid because you can't afford treatment, or getting harassed by [thugs](/glossary/) because a park bench is the only place you have to sleep. |