Similar to how California made a law that prohibited charging for access to public restrooms. The intention was free public restrooms for everyone but the result was that most of the public restrooms closed up and it’s harder than ever to find somewhere to go.
The top comment is warning people that these type of laws that attempt to mandate certain behavior often backfire
I find it funny how California causes its own issues, makes laws to fix said issues, and then causes more issues as a result. Living in Utah which tends to be a very anti-business-mandate place, and which does not have any such law, I've never had to pay for a bathroom. In fact, places where you have to ask for a key from a clerk are quite rare as well.
Watching California gradually kill itself through administrative bloat, Orwellian laws, and degeneracy has been quite entertaining.
> Living in Utah which tends to be a very anti-business-mandate place
Very non-coincidental that Utah has one of the highest concentrations of MLM businesses in the country.
Or the "industry" of "youth treatment" that is centered in Utah. Conversion therapy, etc.
Thousands of allegations stretching decades of abuse, physical, sexual and emotional, federal inquiries.
And still the Utah Office of Licensing rubber stamps its inspections of such facilities:
> analysis by APM Reports and The Salt Lake Tribune reveals that those inspectors almost never find violations. More than 98 percent of the time, they check the box marked "compliant." Across the 670 reports, the data reveals inspectors assessed more than 53,000 items in total. But they documented only 861 deficiencies. That means inspectors determined that treatment programs were noncompliant only 1.6 percent of the time.
> The most common ding? Not having the proper employee paperwork.
You might sit back, "entertained", by California. But pretending like Utah is some utopian vision is equally laughable, or would be if it didn't come at such a high cost.
Perhaps there's a middle ground between Utah and California.
I didn't say or act like Utah is a utopia. You invented that. Only that I don't have to pay to use bathrooms. I have my own complaints with this place too. We're gradually getting overtaken by the very things I laugh at California for. Funnily enough, a large contributor to the problem is Californians fleeing the consequences of their decisions. I can hardly afford to live in my home state, but the unaware affluent wine-sipping Californians sure can. But I definitely am much happier here than most other places in the US for the time being.
I have a child, they spontaneously have to pee upon entering any store or restaurant. I have visited far too many public restrooms in this state, I have never had to pay for one.
Perhaps bathrooms had to be charged for due to a sufficiently significant portion of the population causing damage to them.
Perhaps the California law requiring free bathrooms was a way for California leaders to shirk responsibility for providing clean bathrooms to all and foist costs onto private businesses. I always assume this is the case when government requires businesses to do provide something at a price the government sets. The politicians get all the acclaim and none of the headaches of fixing (or not really fixing) the problem, win win for them.
If Utah does not have the population that causes damage to bathrooms, then its politicians would not yet have needed to come up with a law requiring free bathrooms.
They don't have as much of the demographic that causes damage to property because of the religious and cultural backbone here that (decreasingly so) binds this state. For all the complaints people throw at the Mormons, standard of living, average level of education, and crime rate, are all fantastic compared to most other places.
As the culture becomes one to not punish those for bad actions, not shaming bad lifestyle choices, and begins to artificially force an unnatural level of multiculturalism, society rips apart.
I'm not even a conservative either. But this "social progressivism at all costs" disorder that our country has developed is going to have dire, and inevitable consequences.
Dunno about SF, but the mitigating factor in. LA is that the bathroom is locked, you ask for a key, the key is only for customers. Not every place has a public bathroom but they didn't before either.
Don't know if that's illegal but I doubt anyone cares about mom and pop shops. All the large chains still have open restrooms.
It's like that all over Florida and Georgia. Most gas stations where the bathrooms are not accessed from inside the convenience store have locked bathrooms. That isn't something unique to California.
Here is a realistic scenario. Remote firm needs to hire a new employee in a Pacific time zone for a easy to find role. Employer could choose to target the job posting ad in Oregon, Washington, Nevada, etc. but not California.
