re: #14 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There are jobs at stake, but that is a separate issue to be addressed. And AFAIK, most cruise lines use cheap third-country labor for most positions.

Carnival purposefully flags their ships in Liberia, Bermuda, and other countries as a flag of convenience, instead of as US so as to avoid taxes, regulation, and oversight. The crews are almost entirely non-American. The companies themselves might be headquartered here, but the bulk of their employees are low wage folks from overseas. They’re some of the hardest working people out there too, but the cruise lines would rather that you don’t notice them at all.