re: #41 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
I was really hoping that cruises wouldn’t survive COVID, simply because of how big of a floating environmental disaster to the oceans they are. Hopefully there will be fewer of them but I’m not going to hold my breath.
They are a well-established and well-lobbied industry: one that generates high profits because it is positioned to exploit a cheap workforce by sailing under foreign flags where labor laws are lax if or not enforced at all.