[mcdeltat]

A surprisingly thought provoking article. A few thoughts I had:

- Is individual bathing really that bad on the environment, or should we be chasing other things? (looking at you, consumerism)

- If we use renewable energy sources, like the article suggests should be used for a modern bathhouse, then couldn't we just use that for individual baths and call it a day?

- Who has time for a multi-hour bath/shower each day in our modern society where productivity is everything? Even a few times a week is pushing it. Makes you feel like we're going backwards, where something as basic as bathing we are no longer "allowed" to enjoy (have your 4 minute shower and back to work!).

- No discussion of hygeine. This seems like a critical point which needs to be evaluated.

- I believe we do need many more small/medium community things in the spirit of a shared bathhouse. We are getting too individual and closed off in modern Western society.

[samename]

> - Who has time for a multi-hour bath/shower each day in our modern society where productivity is everything? Even a few times a week is pushing it. Makes you feel like we're going backwards, where something as basic as bathing we are no longer "allowed" to enjoy (have your 4 minute shower and back to work!).

> - I believe we do need many more small/medium community things in the spirit of a shared bathhouse. We are getting too individual and closed off in modern Western society.

These points contradict, right? Maybe we don't need to be more productive. The cost of this productivity has been our communities with the rise of individualism.

I do wish the article explored how bathhouses impacted communities more. Were people happier? More connected?

[mcdeltat]

Yah the points do contradict. I agree with you that the interaction between bathhouses (or similar) and communities is interesting. I can imagine a society with bathhouses, but certainly not our current society. The whole thing needs an overhaul to realign values with something that could successfully support public bathhouses. In fact I think that's the more interesting takeaway than the sustainability argument.