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0 pointsAperocky3y ago0 comments

> He treated it like poverty tourism, like a middle-class youth group "missions trip" to build huts for third-world natives.

"mission trips" are not real poverty tourism though. Kids don't go live in real poverty on those trips. They live in hotels, eat prepared food, so on.

The author did move 300 boxes per hour for a whole month.

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emptyfile3y ago

You misunderstand, these kids don't go to live in poverty, they go to watch poverty.

Same, for the full experience the author should've sold his house and lived on his salary.

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emptyfile3y ago

You misunderstand, these kids don't go to live in poverty, they go to watch poverty.

Same, for the full experience the author should've sold his house and lived on his salary.

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