Dolphin says he will no longer post. Dolphin's gokunming posting behaviour was better than that of most of those who responded to him. He complained of personal attacks in his last(?) post. My sympathies are entirely with him, although I wish he were not so sensitive. This has nothing to do with my own very frequent and very fundamental disagreements with him.
Gee, congratulations folks. My thumbs-down to all involved - ridicule rather than reason, information, or anything else useful. Personalities and egos rather than pretended topics.
And I'm not pretending to be completely innocent of anything.
Migrant workers receive bricks in lieu of pay
发布者Agreed, JanJal, good comment. But I think there's a greed machine in operation that enhances these situations, although I won't claim that it produces them out of thin air. The machine is called global capitalism, "the world system", and in dealing with it, it helps to be pissed off, although that by itself is insufficient as a solution.
Bringing a taste of Italy to Yunnan: An interview with Diego Triboli
发布者Good interview, good place, good food, good folks.
Migrant workers receive bricks in lieu of pay
发布者@Agreed, cloudtrapezer. Also strange to see what sorts the present world produces...o-oh, damn, I forgot, it's all supposed to be simply a matter of 'human nature'.
Weekend in Dali: A Chinese perspective
发布者I think there's such a thing as tourism being commercially overdeveloped, especially when it is hyped as 'authentic', etc., and when 'authentic' is promoted as something deserving of sacred awe on the part of outsiders, who probably can't understand it anyway..
But then what does 'authentic' mean? I'd suggest it means not pretending to be what it is not.
And with that I suggest we all may be in trouble.
Migrant workers receive bricks in lieu of pay
发布者@JanJal: You mean it would drive investors to go to places where they can get away with not paying their employees if their invested money doesn't magically 'grow'?