MEET THE SYMBOL OF BUREAUCRACY: SAN FRANCISCO’S $1.7 MILLION TOILET. MUST BE A MISTAKE HERE, THIS TOILET IS IN DAIL EIREANN.

Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawMEET THE SYMBOL OF BUREAUCRACY: SAN FRANCISCO’S $1.7 MILLION TOILET When building a single public toilet demands $1.7 million, it’s not the construction that failed—it’s the system behind it. San Francisco’s outdoor toilet was eventually built, but not before the real story surfaced: how bureaucracy devours public resources. Even after the fixture and installation were donated, the city faced over $1.2 million in project management fees, design reviews, permits, and administrative hurdles. The scandal wasn’t the toilet—it was the machinery that made a basic task almost impossible. Today, the toilet stands, not as a success story, but as a monument to waste: proof that when bureaucracy outweighs action, public trust is the first thing to collapse. Sources: Business Insider, USA Today