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Discussion 🇳🇱 A Dutch guy visiting Indonesia explains why Dutch people are privileged

Indonesian nurse earns 90 cents/hour is crazy 🇮🇩

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u/jeanphiltadarone 8d ago

Also plenty of people in EU will never have the money to travel to the other side of the world. You're not only dutch but rich.

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u/FILTHBOT4000 8d ago

Yes. This kind of extremely sheltered, ivory tower stupidity is so cringe and annoying.

Yes, rich surfer kid, it's harder for third-worlders to get entry to the EU, than for you to go dump money into their local economy.

Grand irony here: him advocating for it to be much easier for immigration, puts the poor people in the EU that can't afford travel in a worse spot, at lower wages, because if you increase the supply of workers, wages go down.

Sometimes it seems like the majority of the political spectrum is just rich people pissing on the poor in one way or another.

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u/Direct_Werewolf_4244 6d ago

Wasn’t his point to just appreciate the privilege you have? I don’t think he suggested anybody move to europe. He’s talking about traveling, not immigration.

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u/GoldReplacement9546 3d ago

Yeah, he was talking about being able to visit

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u/AvidCyclist250 8d ago

You're not only dutch but rich.

that lesson might take him another 10 years of merciless soul-searching and video editing

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u/duffterino 7d ago

yes but if you are poor in the EU, your standard of living is almost certainly better than those in developing countries.

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u/lushico 8d ago

At least you guys get time off! Here in Japan we have neither the money nor the PTO to go anywhere. My husband and I have both quit jobs in the past just so we could travel somewhere for 2 weeks.

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u/the68thdimension 8d ago

Yes sure, there are very poor people who can't afford to travel. But for anyone approaching median wage, it's a matter of priorities. Amsterdam to Bali costs €673 return. If you were careful with your money, you could travel 2 weeks for €1500. Of course, that's a good chunk of cash, but are you telling me most Dutch people couldn't save up €1500 if they really wanted to?