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Well-paid software engineers sneering at the general public for not changing careers during a global pandemic, exhibits an obvious lack of humanity.
But I said exactly the opposite: - a lot of people changed occupations - it's good for them
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Note that it wasn’t just cheaper, but also better quality.
Initially, when they entered new markets and burned VC money to sustain the beachhead. Once their position on a given market was established, the prices went up and quality dropped like a stone.
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Let me tell you. I was a poor boy growing in a tourist city in a latin american country. It was a small town, a bit sophisticated, so we got the cream of the tourism business: Upper middle class families. Indeed, plenty of money flowed into the city. But, it was not distributed equaly. Social mobility was almost null, because tourism have lots of jobs, but most of them low skill jobs. Then, there's this permanent hum…
Then, there's this permanent humiliation of feeling like a servant in your home-town, because the local upper class makes very clear to you peons, that you're less important than the tourists, and they also think this very clearly. We see this happen in the US, too, when a handful of billionaires buy up small town property and turn it into a resort town, driving out the locals. Some of my friends in that situation go…
> somehow, serving the rich for $12/hr will lead to them becoming "one of them."
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> and I have no sympathy for the upper ones, the worst they get, the happier I am That's the stance I fully despise. My country (Russia) has suffered tremendously (and still does, 100 years later) because people sharing such ideas took power, killing dozens of millions in the process.
The thing is that you guys from Russia have started thinking that you're the solo holder of human sufference, I come from Southern Italy with Mafia and absent government, where rich get richer, kids play on the street surrounded by heroin needles, all with few castles of rich people being the kings among the shit, so yeah I won't dare to tell you how entitled you are to your ideas, but probably if the people that too…
I'm a power user of Airbnb. I have never disliked a service as much that I pay continue to pay for other than LinkedIn. Both of these are because I have/had little choice. What it all comes down to is getting a shitting experience and paying a premium for it. I have a 30+ day stay that had been booked close to 6 months in advanced canceled 7 days before my stay because the user sold their house. Airbnb said they woul…
What? Kind of a illogical reaction to a tough situation right? What is AirBnb supposed to do if one of their hosts sells their house without notifying them and all similar listing are already booked? Would more compensation satisfy you? Honestly confused why you would want to punish a service you admit to using frequently.
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Then, there's this permanent humiliation of feeling like a servant in your home-town, because the local upper class makes very clear to you peons, that you're less important than the tourists, and they also think this very clearly. We see this happen in the US, too, when a handful of billionaires buy up small town property and turn it into a resort town, driving out the locals. Some of my friends in that situation go…
Somehow I suspect you're not being very charitable towards your friends. Would they describe their own thought processes as > somehow, serving the rich for $12/hr will lead to them becoming "one of them."
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Uh oh, "bosses stealing wealth from their workers" - now that's yet another despicable stance I despise. You really repeat word for word the slogans of soviet socialists who went on to plunder the country and kill off or expulse the majority it's most capable people. It's a shame how such poisonous views proliferate in modern society.
Or someone good at math just made some calculations and found out that if people at the top have a villa and a tesla and people at the bottom can't get to the end of the month without a side job, some wealth stealing is happening somewhere, it's not like "Oh they were saying the same things so they are not true and we should not do anything about it" But we should stop thinking about the past and think about the curr…
You've read the wrong bits. Before the WW1 Russia had a booming cultural and scientific spheres, was undergoing a rapid industrialization and had a lot of philosophical schools and movements. All was hampered by an ineffective and inadequate authoritarian rule, but the human capital was there and rapidly closing the gaps to leading economies. In fact, the seeds planted at that time allowed Russia to quickly rebuild and industrialize after the revolution, withstand Germany in WW2 and emerge as a leading world power on par with the USA, maintaining this status for many decades, doing all of this despite the ineffective socialistic rule.
Now, the reds came to power only after they have staged a successful coup late in 1917, toppling the interim government that was in power after the Tzar abdication. After the coup the Reds won the brutal civil war, chanting those very slogans you are repeating. I believe that if not for this unfortunate event, Russia would peacefully transition to democracy and by now would be one of the leading European economies, with twice the population it has now. The world could have learned a lesson from all of this, but the ideas of equality and justice are sounding so seductive to unlearned audience. If only they knew that equality means mediocrity.
Oh, and Tsars never burned books, that was what Nazis did.
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Not since 9/11 , the security theatre is still very painful, even in first. I'm sure it's much more comfortable if you're flying general aviation, but that's still way more expensive than commercial ever was, even in the 60s
I don't have an arab complexion, but TSA has never been that much of a hassle for me. Is it really that bad for you? I just have to take my belt and shoes off and take my laptop out. There are lines, but it usually doesn't take me more than 20 minutes to get through.
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Or someone good at math just made some calculations and found out that if people at the top have a villa and a tesla and people at the bottom can't get to the end of the month without a side job, some wealth stealing is happening somewhere, it's not like "Oh they were saying the same things so they are not true and we should not do anything about it" But we should stop thinking about the past and think about the curr…
> I've read a bit and I think the problem with russia was not the communism You've read the wrong bits. Before the WW1 Russia had a booming cultural and scientific spheres, was undergoing a rapid industrialization and had a lot of philosophical schools and movements. All was hampered by an ineffective and inadequate authoritarian rule, but the human capital was there and rapidly closing the gaps to leading economies.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Censorship_(Russian_...
But even seeing at what's happening now, you have a rogue state, made of oligarchs, killing journalists, and I guess it's hardly communism to be blamed, I think happening in Russia was the worst thing that could've happened to the communist ideas
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I realize this, even so, for Amsterdam it was a very much needed reprieve.
So you work hard to make your city to become one of the major tourist destinations in the world, who bring in a lot of money and help the local business flourish, and then need a reprieve from that? Kinda counterproductive, no?
Tourists are good for certain local business. Mostly low quality bars, restaurants, shops. Anything more upscale doesn't benefit from an endless stream of people who seem to have nothing better to do than just walk around.
Without tourists, buildings would quickly fill with residents. Bars, restaurants, and shops have to up their game to sell to local people.
Obviously, there is no reason to get rid of all tourists. But restricting the number of tourists to avoid an overcrowed center is a good idea.