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William Saletan writes on the economics of public poo in America, compared with how some residents in an area without proper plumbing in India are paid to use a public potty as part of an eco-sanitation project. While that might work in some neighborhoods, readers of Slate might not be a good target demographic:

Why don’t you get subsidized the same way? Because you’re no threat. You don’t foul sidewalks. If you have to choose between peeing in private for 25 cents and peeing in public for free, you’ll cough up the quarter. This might be the only environmental issue where wealthier people pollute less than poor people do.