sorry for the *stack link, but many writers i like from developing countries are on it, and this is an impt post:
every time someone says 'hey it's so cheap to have a nice villa in bali' here's the exploitative math behind it
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the money quote
"Villa owner: Australian guy named Brett who visited Bali once in 2015 and decided he deserved to own a piece of it.
Property manager: UAE company with an office in Seminyak and a token Indonesian partner who doesn’t do anything.
Booking platform: American corporation headquartered in San Francisco.
Cleaning staff: Indonesian woman named Wayan who’s been scrubbing toilets for five years and still can’t afford to take her kid to the doctor without selling her phone.
But sure. “Locally staffed.”
#Indonesia #Travel #Bali
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