----- Original Message ----- From: john hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On reflection it has occured to me that prices may > affect bathroom maintenance costs: if Mc.D's charges > less for burgers and obtains more customers, then they > may have more bathroom use which may require more > bathroom cleaning, i.e. an increase in bathroom > maintenance costs. If such were the case (it seems > reasonable), then maintenance costs would enter into > the profit max. problem and would therefore affect the > price, right? That's not a rhetorical question; if > I'm wrong please tell me. >
Do you include water usage in maintenance costs? Are pay toilets more common in areas of water scarcity? Are costs of water higher in Holland or Spain? Is there any strictly economic rationale that would account for pay toilets being common in some countries and rare in others? Or is the assumption here that businessmen in some countries prefer policies which are economically irrational? How would either a businessman a priori or an economist after the fact go about estimating or determining which policy was more profitable? ~Alypius Skinner
