Everything is political, from video games to tech to comic books. But I admit that spending a lot of time on Twitter dot com also tends to increase the political temperature when it comes to just about everything. Considering our current world though, it’s pretty understandable. Just today we stumbled across this proposed toilet designed to “increase productivity” and now I’m already pissed enough to join a revolutionary mob against this wicked weapon of the ruling class.
BREAKING NEWS: Say goodbye to comfort breaks! New downward-tilting toilets are designed to become unbearable to sit on after five minutes. They say the main benefit is to employees in improved employee productivity. pic.twitter.com/lfDbeXJdCX
— Dave Vescio (@DaveVescio) December 17, 2019
At first I couldn’t believe this was real. Other incredulous commentators compared it to something from Sorry to Bother You, a film with examples of capitalist insanity so absurd that they are technically fake at the moment. Who could honestly want to design a toilet purposefully designed to make sitting employees so uncomfortable they would get back to working faster? What companies could possibly want to be that openly antagonistic to the concept of humans needing to rest?
It turns out this toilet is the anti-brain child of “StandardToilet,” a British startup. So it’s almost like a sad coda to what’s going on in that country right now. As reported by Daily Mail, the group (hilariously backed by the British Toilet Association) is deeply concerned about the lost money and productivity that comes from workers, you know, needing to take breaks every so often. After all, the greatest “problem” for capitalism to solve is nullifying the pesky inefficient humanity of humans in the never-ending pursuit of profit. You won’t see this toilet in executives suites.
So with its fiendish arithmetic the StandardToilet slopes down at 13 degrees, bothersome enough to get you to finish up faster but not so unbearable you don’t sit down for your business in the first place. Beyond just the horrible ethics (reminiscent of cruel anti-homeless public architecture) some have wondered if this would violate the rights of disabled employees or employees with chronic illnesses like IBS. The silver lining is that this probably works great to prevent hemorrhoids.
Thankfully this cursed toilet doesn’t actually exist. This punishing photo is just a render. And if the workers of the world unite hopefully this thing will never come to pass. For more on toilet tech check out this stolen golden UK toilet, this high-tech self-cleaning toilet, and this European restaurant that serves toilet water.
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