cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/38101225
Imagine this: you walk into a public restroom in China, but instead of just grabbing toilet paper… you have to scan a QR code and watch an ad first 😅. Only then will the machine dispense a tiny sheet of tissue. Don’t feel like watching? You can also pay 0.5 RMB (about $0.07) for a bit more paper 💸. This system is designed to cut down waste — some people would abuse free paper before. Now, it’s all about “watch an ad or pay a coin.” Would you sit through an ad for free toilet paper, or just drop the 0.5 yuan? 👀 . . .
Source: China Insider on Instagram.
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This is a whole new level of enshitification.
Yeah, I’d be carrying some kind of tool to rip that fucker open.
lemmy feature request please - lemmy gold.
Awards made Reddit so much shittier, that would be a nightmare.
disagree, they are entirely different operating models. reddit was privately funded and eventually snehittified to become profitable. Lemmy is free, but still needs funds to operate. Might as well make it fun and rewaring to participation rather than just annoying banners whenever things get tight.
I will very happily never read “Thanks for the award, kind stranger!” or a string of cringy award speech edits again. I’m so happy they don’t exist here.
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Boring dystopia
Or scrape my ass across their damned dispenser.
Fuck that noise.
How is this any different than Germany where oftentimes the entrance itself is behind a paywall?
Dropping in a coin vs what seems to be downloading some sort of an app or at least opening some shady websites on your fucking phone over your fucking mobile data is where I see it. Even if you used the payment option, you’d have to disclose your online payment information to the provider. Privacy nightmare.
Or simply imagine you just took your most violent shit of the century and then have an ad for hot mexican food or something.
If you’re not fat you can just go through the side of the turn thingy sanifair uses for free
I guess you could also just go underneath but that seems even less dignified
Hop it like the NYC subway.
It sets precedent. You could extend that on anything. Doesn’t make the German pay or piss yourself thing any better though.
Then I’m shitting on the door.
Bring your own toilet paper?
Also China public bathrooms smell like absolute crap I have no idea why. I had to pee in China and walked into a public bathroom on the side of the road. I almost puked
Lmao if someone tried this shit in the US all the dispensors would be kicked off the walls by the end of the day.
This is because of people stealing toilet paper out of public restrooms
https://www.vice.com/en/article/chinas-fighting-toilet-paper-thieves-with-facial-recognition/
Yo first line of that says that many public restrooms don’t have have TP at all and you need to bring your own. What the fuck even is that system to begin with?!
Many countries have pay per use public restrooms. Sometimes there’s someone sitting outside handing out toilet paper after you pay. Sometimes it a coin insert turnstile. Us oldsters call them Johnny Cash.
This is depressing :(
Watch the black mirror episode Fifteen Million Merits. Your walls are ads unless you pay, can’t even close your eyes.
Oh I definitely know that episode! It’s one of the scariest ones for me. And here we are not that may years after it aired with this already starting to become a reality. :(
Oh ok flushes baby wipes.
Just shit right under it on the floor to show your disagreement.
ⓘDear Citizen, you just lost 1000 points, for shitting on the floor.
how “capitalistic” of the “communists” lol.
He who does not work, shall not wipe.
- Владимир Ленин
How do you figure? In what way does this imply concentration of wealth?
I swear some of y’all think simply selling something is capitalist. Astounding how successful they’ve been at producing undereducated people in the west.
Advertisement predominantly exists to encourage consumption, this is primarily a means to increase wealth
What is being advertised?
It’s not markets that make a country capitalist. It’s the concentration of the wealth from those markets. And China has been jailing/executing their billionaires.
Markets don’t make something capitalist but when markets drive consumption rather than consumption driving markets that’s a sign that capital is gaining power over social welfare. Ad proliferation should be seen as a warning sign towards the social ecosystem.
But you are correct if those ads are promoting socially beneficial choices they may not be a sign of capitalism. Ads that promote healthy choices or taking public transit over driving have their places in socialist societies. I just doubt that they’re the whole of what’s being advertised in exchange for toilet paper. I suspect companies are finding their way in.
And if the companies were workers cooperatives that would be a different problem but Dengist reforms ensured capitalist participation in the Chinese market so I’d believe it if I saw it but I’m not assuming it’s only coops advertising
i thought it was pretty self explanitory but having to pay to wipe your ass in a public washroom, or watch ads to fuel more consumption seems pretty capitalistic in practice.
and undereducated? ill have you know i have a university degree, where i majored in porkin’ yer mum, and i minored in holding my nose and mouth closed while i did it.
Most public Chinese bathrooms I visited didn’t have toilet paper at all, or there was a communal roll outside the “stall”, if there was a stall. It is expected that you bring your own.
We live in a cyberpunk dystopia right now
Hey, could you watch some ads for me? Mines out.
