One Million Dollar Can – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.
A million dollar suit. That’s a fancy suit to be sure, but it isn’t outside of the range of being inpossible. Ridiculous? Sure. But the right fabric from an almost-extincted Al Paca variant and you could end up at a million for a suit, maybe count tax. And you could brag about that suit but no one would care. Like a million isn’t what it used to be. A billion-dollar suit would be Iron Man, but a million dollar suit is just… nice.
What about a million-dollar toilet? Runyun Canyon city park in L.A. had a plan to put in a two-stall unit at the head of the trail. Cost? A million. Now is there a point that the City of Los Angeles is supposed to be broke and how can they afford a million dollar toilet? And to that I say whar, folks, is a million these days? And with inflation? And which is worse, what kind of inflation makes us think billion is the new million or the actual inflation? Who knows.
So people in the Runyon Canyon neighborhood, through ardent effort, got the city to put something in for $200.000.
For reference, around here, you can get a house for two hundred-thousand dollars. So we’re really talking perspective. In San Francisco, a public toilet went in for $1.2 million.
So if a toilet in L.A. goes for two hundred thousand, and a two-bedroom fixer upper in Albany goes for two hundred thousand, then we can conclude that you should probably live in Albany if
AI is going to take your job anyway. We probably don’t have million-dollar toilets except for the Capital, and that’s all about location, location, location.
Million dollar toilets. Million dollar cheese graters
As a sidenote, and maybe a counter to the original cost, Runyon Canyon park trails and within spitting distance of the Hollywood sign.