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>Thinking a little bigger, I can see no better way to combat bigotry and nationalism than to experience life the same way as humans from the other side of the p
by hueving 10y ago
>Thinking a little bigger, I can see no better way to combat bigotry and nationalism than to experience life the same way as humans from the other side of the planet, and realize that we are the same in so many ways.
The people rich enough and willing to do this in the first place are usually not that bigoted/nationalistic. Someone who hates the French isn't going to volunteer to go live in a village in France for a month... especially if it means quitting their job and spending a 20% of their annual income to do so.
- venantius 10y agoThink about the other side of this - the host side. For hosts of these experiences, they don't need to be rich or capital-owning at all in order to be exposed to people of many different backgrounds through experiences.
- frgtpsswrdlame 10y agoTo experience the rich capital owners of other countries?
- princeb 10y agoi think would be very cool if there was an app that would do the reverse and enable the have-nots to have what the haves have, even for a short period of time: - private heli trip to a private island villa, - 300' yachts, aventadors, 488s, 911s all free to use, - private shopping sessions (fully paid for) at hermes, chanel, - meet-and-greets w/ robuchon, redzepi etc, - take a whimsical trip to some middle of nowhere farm to work for a day.. at a totally affordable price for the typical middle class in a middling country. it's not real obviously, it's all a show, rich people don't live like this every day, just substantially more likely to experience something like this than the not-so-rich. obviously, it's not going to happen, but it is a hope.
- ryuker16 10y agoThat's sorta of the point of resorts and cruises.
- ethanbond 10y agoAnd Vegas! The underlying reason all of those things suck. Relevant: David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again." You should read it — it's a hilarious takedown of these sorts of experiences (specifically a 7 day Caribbean cruise).
- ryuker16 10y agoMy parents have money and love cruises. I don't get it at all. I suppose it's because it's cheap if you know how to hunt down a deal.
- tomjakubowski 10y agoIs it the same as the essay "Shipping Out", that David Foster Wallace published in Harper's Magazine in the mid-90s? https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazine-1996-01-0007859.pdf https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazi...
- ethanbond 10y agoYep! That'd be it.
- acedinlowball 10y agoSo your idea is for an app that would allow anyone to have private heli trips to island villas and free-to-use Aventadors for a "totally affordable" price? Is that right?
- 11thEarlOfMar 10y agoRight about that. But if travelers have no preconceived notion one way or the other, this can provide a true notion that they can carry back to friends and family, Tweet about, Instagram, Facebook, etc. etc. The message will get out.