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[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Industry isn't inherently exploitative wtf, it's just capitalism that makes it so.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Then until we get a non-exploitative economic system, you can stop pretending that the tourism industry isn't exploitative.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

When I'm riding my bike across vietnam or taking trains across China and sleeping in hostels/hotels, some of which the owner's family literally lives in or down the street from, who is being exploited? Not every place handles tourism the same.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When I’m riding my bike across vietnam or taking trains across China and sleeping in hostels/hotels, some of which the owner’s family literally lives in or down the street from, who is being exploited?

When someone works full time at a hotel in the United States and cannot afford to live, you are FUCKING DELIGHTED that they're being exploited. Stop using your gap year to justify exploitation, tourist.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

When someone works full time at a hotel in the United States and cannot afford to live,

Bro I worked full time in the US and couldn't afford to live, that's why I left. What you're describing is specific to certain locations, not tourism as a concept.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

And yet you cannot understand why some people who are exploited within a system that encourages entitled behavior might not like tourists very much.

Glad you had a good experience, tourist.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

And yet you cannot understand why some people who are exploited within a system that encourages entitled behavior might not like tourists very much.

I can understand why you might not like tourists in your town, where their money goes to the people who are exploiting you, furthering their ability to do so, but that's because your town is ruled by bourgeoisie tyrants. I also understand why that's dumb, because the problem isn't the tourists or tourism. It's specific to your local area's inability to control your bourgeoisie.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I understand that you think I deserve to be exploited.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Nothing I've said suggests I think exploitation due to capitalism is just. I feel like you're not even listening to me.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I feel like you're so enamored with tourism that you don't care who it hurts and are willing to blame exploitation on the exploited if that's what it takes to avoid introspection.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

I have pointed out, in nearly every post on the subject, that the blame lies with the landlords and bourgeois.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I have pointed out, in nearly every post on the subject, that the blame lies with the landlords and bourgeois.

And the inability of the powerless to control them.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

This depends on the specific location. Nobody is being exploited if I stay in some hostel or an hotel in a place with so much housing availability rent is <300USD.

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