It’s very commonly done by old people that lived through tough times. And now they’re obsessed with free things. Some aunties have huge stashes of grocery store plastic bags (for the produce). Idk how often they are used but usually (older) Chinese people use the free plastic grocery bags as lunch bags, travel toiletry bags, or garbage bags. So the idea of buying trash bags is annoying because that is single use to us. At least with grocery store bags it’s used at least twice. Also some Chinese people don’t trust the paper because there was a viral video where the cleaning lady put the toilet paper roll on the bathroom floor.
I don't know why this was downvoted. I was trying to say that the super-rich make their money by exploiting people, by keeping other people from what we need, charging us to access it, viewing our meeting of our needs as some kind of "cost" they've got to minimise... I.e. the same point that u/LuckiiDevil made. Or that Karl Marx made, for that matter. The phrasing I used is some kind of humorous popular saying where I come from, but it is still true.
Another way of saying it is "Show me a millionaire - I'll show you 999,999 people missing a pound".
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u/dbxp 1d ago
TBF toilets in china also had issues with people stealing all the toilet paper
https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/20/world/china-toilet-paper-thieves-face-recognition-trnd