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First word, third world clash in the service industry is real but you should not react with emotion only. What you need to consider is the opportunity cost for
by Nokinside 7y ago
First word, third world clash in the service industry is real but you should not react with emotion only.
What you need to consider is the opportunity cost for those workers. Opportunity cost = (return of best alternative not taken) - (return of a chosen option). If the work at cruise company is the best opportunity for the low paid Filipino worker, you should just be generally horrified how hard the life in third world is. 14-16 hours of hard work per day in a ship may be better than even harder lower paying work in some factory.
This is separate issue from pure exploitation and abuse where even the low wages are not paid on time, agreements are not kept and more work is assigned without extra compensation.
- staticautomatic 7y ago"pure exploitation and abuse" happens to foreign cruise ship workers all the time and is exceptionally well documented.
- pasiaj 7y agoPlease provide a link to the aforementioned exceptional documentation.
- staticautomatic 7y agohttps://story.californiasunday.com/below-deck https://story.californiasunday.com/below-deck
- the_seraphim 7y agoGuy earns almost 10 times his normal expected wage for 6 years, working only double the 40 hour week he expected. After fucking loving it for 6 years he gets sick and received shitty treatment from a doctor but then when he gets really sick, he gets sent to a nice as fuck medical facility, on 4 months sick pay with his medical bills covered for 3 months. then they wont hire him back because he wont indemnify the company for liability. hmmm... if he put even 10% of his wages into some kind of insurance he would be covered now and now in the literal shit (and he would have felt happy to return to the carnival line as he knew he could fall back on the medical insurance if necessary for further treatment) in the mean time, the guy has earned a full 60 years worth of wages from his previous shitty job, and while his kids are now in a private school with high fees (did he not save any of his money?!?) his out of work status has come at a poor time for him (shit happens, even in the 1st world) I just dont feel too sorry for the guy, sue me... now excuse me while i go back to waiting for my NHS appointment for my back pain... its only in december. If it goes like my knee surgery, i should be treated sometime around 2021, but at least i wont be bankrupt like i would in the states. life sucks, man made poor choices while raking the dough, now its carnival lines fault alledgedly