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Uhh, you're assuming a lot without anything to back it up. Even if she was a student, her family is wealthy which is how she could afford this vacation.
They are for the vast majority of people in the world.
Yeah, no. This is completely false.
In short, you're wrong and upset because I dared to criticize how someone wastes their money while children are starving. I see it all the time and I'll see it again.
Gonna ignore you now. People like you are always desperate to defend their greed and entitlement, so you may have the last word. Goodbye.
It's ~AUD$1200 (~US$750) return (~$590 per way, inc. checked bags) from Adelaide to Bangkok.
Pretty cheap if you're not way up in Canada somewhere. For reference, Adelaide to Toronto is just over AUD$6000 return.
Canadian holidays are for the rich.
Edit: From Madrid to Bangkok return is ~AUD$1300 (~$650 per way) (via China Eastern Airways though...)
The vast majority of people cannot afford a $1300 flight for a vacation.
All you're doing is highlighting how unaware you are about how poor most of the world is.
You assumed far more than the person you responded to.
No, I didn't.
That's a bad argument. The average annual income for North America is the highest (57k$) followed by Europe (21k$). Combined they have about 1B people. The rest of the world has averages below 10k$, which means about 7B of the 8 billion earn that or lower on average. Take away fixed living costs of maybe 25-30% (probably more) and they are at ~650$/month, maybe 20% for food/drinks and other expenses and you're already at ~325$/month.
Traveling to the next big city in my country is ~50€ single direction, which is not unpayable but could cut well into the budget for the vast majority of the world. So, sure, to the rest of the world North American and European are rich. Does that mean that they all deserve to die? Does being a European being rich in Asia mean they are rich at home?
The closer we get to the root of the problem, the more people we'll find that contribute to it and the fewer we'll find that are willing to admit it.
Good job defending your greed and entitlement. Nobody expected more from you.
Do tell me what the root of the problem is.
lol they attacked you personally for not hating people who… took at least one plane ride one time
Greed.
So a person born poor, middle class, rich or otherwise, in a wealthy country, but by virtue of being born in a wealth country richer than 7 billion other people, is the problem because they are greedy? Or how am I supposed to understand this?
If you don't want to understand something, you won't understand it.
The fact remains that a vacation to Thailand is prohibitively expensive for the vast majority of people.
You just don’t want to acknowledge how you live in a world of privilege at the expense of those who don’t.
It’s okay, I see it all the time and I don’t expect any more of you at this point.
"I can't express my point logically and will just assume the other is at fault." or alternatively *makes a bad point, won't elaborate, says collocutor is wrong, leaves, thinks they "won" the debate*
Great "talking" to you. I'm sure you'll be able to help people see the presumed error in their ways with your excellent rhetoric.