sanitation

There are upwards of 2 billion people who don't have sanitation and sewage professionals looking after their waste.

For example, sanitation workers and doctors would get a high wage whereas video game designer wages would drop.

We took over a prototype field data collection system from a US NGO working in water and sanitation.

We should be discussing the broken alternative proposition of the author, but: those 2 billion folks that don't have sanitation and plumbing would likely choose sanitation and plumbing if they could.

Basic needs like clean water, sanitation, and streets could be extended to public housing and food.

There are of rules for proper sanitation and safety, as well as continuing education requirements that are enforced through licensing.

There have been massive strides in sanitation, but the primary benefit is clean drinking water, sanitary kitchens, and the removal of bodily wastes.

And the sanitation and water supply systems are an improvement to what was there otherwise (i.e., people dumping their chamber pots into the street).

They drive dangerously on the road here and now it seems like everyone else is too (especially the tour bus companies and private sanitation services).

Hookworms and other now-rare diseases, are because of better modern sanitation.

Although I agree that at least basic sanitation is more important than this, but this is not the case in general.

So, if your position is that we can get by without professional sanitation and pluming industries, they would seem to be the counterpoint.

There might be a "time and a place," but people whom have nothing need equal access to water, food, sanitation and whatever else can be afforded to make their lives a little more comfortable.

Sure, the overall quality of life has improved in NYC due to building codes and public sanitation, but totally removing rent "controls" (the general term, not the NYC term) seems like a slide towards poorer living conditions for the lower and middle classes.

The sanitation budget was constantly being slashed, because Quality Assurance as a department doesn't bring in a profit (that they can see), whereas hordes of "process engineers" would come in and rearrange boxes and claim that they have just eliminated 10 steps out of the workflow and calculate this to be saving $92/day.

"but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"...