CUTTING DOWN WASTE IS DYSTOPIAN

  • Barabas [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It is kind of wild how when it is China, blatant anti-poor shit like this is just blithely accepted. There is practically no difference between the arguments for this and the arguments libs trot out in the west when it comes to public toilets and the homeless.

    That there is apparently enough people desperate enough to steal toilet paper in order to install expensive privacy invading facial recognition systems seems like an issue.

    • Duckduck [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Older people in China went through incredible deprivation in their youth: Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, and many other lesser known horrors. They’re the ones who survived. And they survived by shoving people out of the way and taking everything that wasn’t nailed down. The ones who were polite and waited in line died. For the longest time, you had to bring your own toilet paper to public toilets. But now there’s free paper in there, in a stall where you have privacy? You bet your ass they’re gonna take it.