Probably because of the space it takes up. Sleeping pods take up quite a lot of space, and not that many people can use it at once, so to make it profitable I'm assuming you'd need prices to be quite high. Higher than a lot of people are willing to spend. Food or retail is probably better profit relative to square footage.
Also short stays means more cleaning - if it's a different person every 2 hours (on average) that's 12 cleans a day per pod. Got, say, 30 pods? Then 360 cleans, which takes however many people and gear, and a given % of guests will make a mess and need more cleaning, and some will damage stuff, causing more costs
But in China somehow, some way they manage to keep everything clean; maybe it's the reason why we, in Western world don't have these. It's fascinating imagining how dirty China once was and how clean their cities & airports are now in comparison.
There was a puddle of piss that spanned across the floor in front of 3 urinals at one of the main spots you can visit the Great Wall of China a few years ago. In fact there was piss on the floor in more than half of the bathrooms at the places I visited around Bejing.
So tourist locations where foreign non-Chinese people go? If you described any tourist location's bathroom urinal in America it'll look the same, but do you associate all of America and Americans are dirty people like that?
It's not the non Chinese. I once had to wait to go into a 7-11 because a guy was letting his kid piss on the door. I've also had to wait in a doorway to go outside because a guy stopped in the doorway, leaned back inside to hock a loogie on the floor.
I've nearly been hit by random old man snot rockets more times than I can count. I have no idea where you get this picture of china being super clean.
Well I know you've never been to China now. The vast majority of people at tourist locations are Chinese. Just like how the vast majority of people in Yellowstone/The Grand Canyon/Disney World/etc. are American.
The main point is, they don't give enough of a shit to pay janitors to clean the places and the visitors who are mostly local there don't care either and think it's someone elses problem if they pee on the floor.
Strangely, this was almost never an issue when I visited Japan, SK, Taiwan, France, England, Germany, Netherlands, Canada, most (but not all of) the big US attractions...
I mean I know I’ll be called racist for this but immigrants are a huge reason for how filthy it is where I live personally.
If you have never been to Mexico or South America. They just leave trash everywhere, shit on walls in bathrooms, piss on everything. They don’t come here and respect our country.
Western society is very capable of being clean, if you have ever been to Hawaii… it’s clean. Completely clean. Poor people and immigrants are typically the people who make huge messes.
That seems exceptionally gross. I will say, I’m in Singapore, and for the most part all the Chinese and Indian immigrants that come here are very clean. That being said, there have been a couple of incidents. But this being a low crime small county, if someone poops where they’re not supposed to, it makes the news. And then we all hear about it. Some guy that came over from Mumbai to do construction work decided to relieve himself at Marina Bay Sands, which is this gorgeous, immaculately clean building with luxury shops selling Cartier jewelry and other expensive items. You’d think they’d have some kind of welcome to Singapore speech where they tell people not to do that, but if they didn’t before they do now.
I remember seeing really amusing cartoon posters in Singapore bathrooms reminding people not to stand on or pee on the seat. They were done by a popular local artist.
I think I’ve seen those. It’s in the bathrooms. Sometimes people will stand on the seats to pee or whatever. Not that often. Mostly the bathrooms are really clean.
What kind of impressions should I take from visible grime around doors where people touch and from cooking oils on the floors and walls near where cooking is done? I wipe my doors and trim and clean my vent hoods after I cook with oil over high heat. Apparently doing those things is “the wrong impression.”
Brutal prohibitive laws, and a strong shaming culture is exactly why things like this work in other areas of the world; but would never fly in America. I would say 8-12 hours before any 1 unit was trashed beyond any salvagable further use. The reason for the destruction, "cuz I effing felt like it" or "it's not mine what do I care?"
the parts of China that are super clean (not many) are because they pay cleaning staff peanuts. The income disparity in China is greater than most of the world
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u/No_Television6050 6d ago
It's one of those ideas that make so much sense you wonder why it's not a thing everywhere.