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Which is the country their rules should follow? Their flag? Their company's residency? Their production location? Guess what, all are bought and sold off fo
by cookiengineer 2y ago
Which is the country their rules should follow?
Their flag?
Their company's residency?
Their production location?
Guess what, all are bought and sold off for cheap on the market.
Oh and they pay less than 1.5% taxes, usually, if they even pay taxes.
- dawnerd 2y agoI agree it's a tricky problem to solve without agreements in place governing it. The airline industry seems to have settled on you follow the laws of the destination country. Ships in particular though do everything they can to abuse flagging their ships with the most lax working regulations.
- paulmd 2y agoThe union of the ruleset of the flag country, the source country, and the destination country seems pretty reasonable - you should have to follow all three. Obviously not how it’s currently done, it’s an industry that has been doing it by flagging out of places like Liberia or Mauritania since time immemorial, but we can clearly do better. If this causes conflicts that make certain flags legally incompatible with certain combinations of sources and destinations - good. Those flags-of-convenience can harmonize their rules to the rest of the world. The environment and human rights will benefit.