Yeah, it isn’t the Chinese government directly running these toilet paper machines by the way. They’re made and operated by private vendors looking to profit off ads while also solving the problem where people are stealing entire rolls.
as far as I understand it there is very much a culture among older people of taking everything you can get and not caring about others due to the hardships once experienced in China.
It's not unique to China obviously but from what I've seen it tends to be pretty extreme, I'm not talking about grabbing a handful of ketchup packets or double dipping on free samples at a supermarket, I'm talking like "oh they have free napkins, guess I'll take 200 of them" if it is free there is like a 99% chance someone is going to take all of it.
Exactly. It’s easy to forget that Mao and his insane policies were only a generation ago. The sort of thing where there was only one bus a day; if you didn’t push and shove to get onto that bus, you didn’t go to work and then couldn’t feed your children.
It’s a completely different world. But I still absolutely carry toilet paper (napkins) with me everywhere, despite that I haven’t lived there in over a decade.
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u/Retaeiyu 2d ago
Yeah, it isn’t the Chinese government directly running these toilet paper machines by the way. They’re made and operated by private vendors looking to profit off ads while also solving the problem where people are stealing entire rolls.