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.”
https://wulanadlerunfiltered.substack.com/p/balis-40000-villas-and-the-8day-cleaners
