• FuckyWucky [none/use name]
    hexbear
    38
    edit-2
    8 months ago

    I've read about this happening in Philippines except its in hundreds or at best thousands of dollars and the girl's "consent" is never involved. Only parents.

    link

    • Judge_Jury [comrade/them, he/him]
      hexbear
      22
      edit-2
      8 months ago
      Wretched of the Earth excerpt

      In its decadent aspect the national bourgeoisie gets considerable help from the Western bourgeoisies who happen to be tourists enamored of exoticism, hunting and casinos. The national bourgeoisie establishes holiday resorts and playgrounds for entertaining the Western bourgeoisie. This sector goes by the name of tourism and becomes a national industry for this very purpose. We only have to look at what has happened in Latin America if we want proof of the way the ex-colonized bourgeoisie can be transformed into "party" organizer. The casinos in Havana and Mexico City, the beaches of Rio, Copacabana, and Acapulco, the young Brazilian and Mexican girls, the thirteen-year-old mestizas, are the scars of this depravation of the national bourgeoisie. Because it is lacking in ideas, because it is inward-looking, cut off from the people, sapped by its congenital incapacity to evaluate issues on the basis of the nation as a whole, the national bourgeoisie assumes the role of manager for the companies of the West and turns its country virtually into a bordello for Europe.

      Once again we need only to look at the pitiful spectacle of certain republics in Latin America. U.S. businessmen, banking magnates and technocrats jet "down to the tropics," and for a week to ten days wallow in the sweet depravity of their private "reserves."

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
        hexbear
        5
        8 months ago

        empire didn't end it was just worked out to be cheaper to outsource colonial oppression to locals

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
      hexbear
      8
      8 months ago

      well anyone willing to pimp their children for millions is probably desperate enough they'll go lower. That's just the free market

      this logic is why the market is evil