Every day, hotel guests leave behind millions of half-used bars of soap.
14 years ago, one man wondered what happens to it.
The answer led him down a path that has since saved tens of thousands of lives around the world.
America’s favorite family outings are increasingly out of reach.
Since 1960, the cost of a baseball game, the movies, and a trip to Disneyland have increased at 2-3x inflation — and families have to work up to 2x as many hours to afford them today.
Let’s assume a family of 4 goes to see an esteemed motion picture like Minions: The Rise of Gru.
4 tickets, 4 sodas, 2 popcorns, 1 candy
All in all, today’s movie outing averages $68.73. Back in 1960? About $3.76 ($34.15, adjusted for inflation).
Fast forward to today, Clean the World partners with more than 8k hotels.
As the largest hotel soap recycler in the world, Clean the World has helped lead to a 60%+ reduction in the number of children who die from diarrheal diseases each year.
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How about the “happiest place on Earth” — Disneyland?
It’s hard to feel the magic when you see the price for parking.
It used to be a mere $0.25 ($2.47, adjusted) to park your car there. Today, it’s $30. That’s an 11,900% bump in price since 1960, or 13.5x inflation.
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Slack's CEO Stewart Butterfield made a huge announcement:
- On Clubhouse
- About building their own Clubhouse into Slack
- While Clubhouse's CEO was also a speaker
DAMN.
This is exactly what was said while Clubhouse's CEO raged while on mute:
Seipler came to a realization:
• ~9k children under 5 were dying from hygiene-related illnesses every day globally
• Studies showed regular hand-washing could cut those deaths in half
So he launched Clean the World to get bars of wasted soap to children in need.
Assuming 40-hour weeks and a standard 2,080 work hours per year, the median family wage in 1960 ($5,620) worked out to ~$2.70/hour. Today’s median ($84k) is $40.38/hr.
How many more hours do families have to work today to afford these activities?
