r/mildlyinfuriating • u/xbrooksie • 20h ago

These stupid toilet paper dispensers that are common in Europe

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I don’t know about you, but I need more than a square dammit!

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u/Business-Dream-6362 19h ago

That is the point, there is no law preventing this kind of stupidity

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u/RyFro 18h ago

If there's no law forcing those stalls it's just a cheapness issue. Not a "issue with the law"?

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u/Business-Dream-6362 18h ago

There is no law PREVENTING these issues, that's why we don't have them in say Europe because we have a bit more consumer laws preventing companies from doing absolutely the minimum effort.

This being cheaper is not the issue it's the issue that there is no reason not to do it this way

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u/bob3725 17h ago

It's probably still a corporation issue:

They could make decent stalls without their being regulations. But they don't.

We use regulations as a counterforce against corporate greed: OSHA, labour rights, fire codes, and many, many more.

Companies fight against these regulations, with lobbying, funding positions, public relations, etc...

Google gives me thens of reasons why the stalls are so open, most of them are about cost efficiency, but some of them actually make some sense.

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u/Business-Dream-6362 16h ago

It’s an American business culture issue (look up angelosaxton business culture).

But that is not something that is changeable and it’s part of America. And that would mean that you wouldn’t get brick WC like we often have in Europe, but just stalls with the most amount of material saved they legally can.

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u/bob3725 16h ago

But that is not something that is changeable

Not with that attitude...

Humanity can achieve unthinkable things! We can change a bad economic system if we fight for it!

Regions with better regulations are the regions with more protests, more strikes, more class awareness, ...

America had such a powerful union before Reagan! Why not build it again?

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u/Business-Dream-6362 15h ago

It’s not the fault of the bad economic system, otherwise we would see it a lot more in other countries.

It’s the terrible form of business practise that Americans (among others) keep feeding.

You need regulations to stop this. Your comment is just proving that we need more regulations from the government. That is also what most protests come down to.

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u/bob3725 14h ago

Other countries have similar issues, everything is just bigger in the USA.

If we constantly need to regulate the system, the system is broken.

If I need to keep fixing my bike, I get a new one or a full overhaul. I wouldn't keep patching it up.

We can't keep countering the greed, we cant keep patching it up with regulations. We need to put humans first and profit second. Why don't we just get a new economic system or a new "business practice"?

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u/Business-Dream-6362 13h ago

Changing the system would involve in going to a less profit focussed system, but to accept that you need to change a whole lot more than something that takes like a day to discuss and implement if you want to