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Is it really greed? Sounds more like market pricing at work to me. The people who live there deserve a good living too, right? So long as their country is be
by CydeWeys 7y ago
Is it really greed? Sounds more like market pricing at work to me. The people who live there deserve a good living too, right? So long as their country is being flooded by tourists anyway they might as start enjoying a somewhat comparable standard of living.
Prices are soaring because tourism is soaring. Don't be mad at the people responding rationally to market forces and enjoying a higher standard of living; be mad at the tourists. And as someone who isn't from there and only lived there for a few years, you have more in common with the tourists than the locals.
- skilled 7y agoActually, I have more "foreign local" friends than people I know in my country of birth. It wasn't a choice per se, but it just so happened that I found a lot of interesting people to connect with. I understand your point, it's valid. But I will add that local markets, in Cambodia for example, will sit on mangoes and papaya until they rot, and still charge a premium despite the product being borderline inedible. Oh, and I am very well aware of local prices. If you take a local with you to theater or even grocery shopping, you'll astound yourself at the "premium" that you get charged as a foreigner.
- CydeWeys 7y agoFood waste is hardly unique to developing countries though! Nearly half of all food that's produced in developed nations ends up not being eaten; it's thrown out at various points in the pipeline. From a food waste criterion, the developing world is actually much better.
- ilkan 7y agoWhen I visited Thailand the tour guide said "Don't go around talking about how cheap things are because 1) it's priced for the locals who don't make as much as you do and 2) it may imply that you think they're inferior to you". And of course it was still the first thing many people said, chuckling with glee...