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To me modern cruises are one of the most egregious cases of late-stage capitalism: The original idea is sound: visit multiple destinations on a mobile hotel!
by schnevets 6y ago
To me modern cruises are one of the most egregious cases of late-stage capitalism:
The original idea is sound: visit multiple destinations on a mobile hotel!
The drive for value is acceptable: make the mobile hotel as fun as the destination with decent restaurants and entertainment
But the inevitable result is catastrophic: increasingly gigantic ships that cram customers and attractions in, cost-cutting measures that harm the environment, exploitation of port towns
- eru 6y agoWhy do you think cruise ships are catastrophic? Before the virus hit, they seemed quite popular with paying customers and people were signing up to work for them voluntarily. You might not like it, but that doesn't make the business catastrophic. (I'm not really in the market for a cruise either.) (The main way you could help cruise ship employees would be to give them better outside options. Eg by opening up migration to rich countries more. Or by otherwise improving the economy of the places they hail from.)