Re:Pay toilets and NYT: a free market microcosm
by bekindandopen on Monday March 08, 2021 @11:00PM
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That could make a great comedy sketch.
A posh-speaking student on walkabout takes a temp job explaining public toilets to urban Australian pedestrians.
A few iterations later, and I still find myself trying to think of ways to make the premise less offensive...live comedy must be ridiculously difficult these days.
Re:Pay toilets and NYT: a free market microcosm
by adolph on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @09:34AM
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It could make for solid comedy. I'm thinking something about the ick factor about assisting someone void, like an elderly person or a person with a movement disorder, as revulsion humor with a growing dawn of the human feeling that eventually we all become frail or incapable (if we are fortunate to live long enough, or survive an accident, or survive a life being born with an ability different), and that by serving others all benefit.
The rational for the claim is that immigrants “don't speak English, are not well attuned to American culture, and have little education or training.” Really?
I don’t disagree with the overall point about public potty markets but there is something off putting about claiming that “dirty” jobs are for people without skills and that immigrants are a class of people without skills when the larger portion of those I see are highly accomplished people who are chronically undervalued.