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Feeling Disillusioned

15/11/2017

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im still overseas and will be back on 18 nov.
then ill fly off on 19 nov to somewhere else.

im feeling very disillusioned where i am.
its a beautiful city. old, with lots of nice buildings.

everything is very expensive.
there are rich people, there are the normal working people as well.
yet there are so many homeless around.
middle eastern homeless, local homeless as well.
and the homeless really litter the streets. as in they are everywhere. some old, young, with kids, whatever. its a sad sight.

and they have on their cardboards
"please give me some coins for food"
and everything is so expensive.

and one of the days. it rained. and i was cold and miserable with my wife. and we couldnt wait to get back to the hotel. and i see the old women and children sitting by the road side and i know they have no shelter to go to. they will continue to be cold and miserable for god knows how long.

​and yet i know that there is food and clothing easily available in the dumpsters.

i see a country of excess and also of poverty.
so beautiful yet so ugly.
people wearing nice clothes and people wearing rags.

im happy to be here to see everything. its somewhere i always wanted to go. but im also sad when i see what i see.

im in Paris
​and im not feeling the love that people are talking about.


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Thought Instrument link
16/11/2017 10:25:09 am

The inherent vice of capitalism is always the unequal sharing of the blessings. Human greed in today's capitalist society forces the people at the bottom of the chain to be continually exploited without any end in sight.

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Sinkie
16/11/2017 12:38:26 pm

Ugghh I've always hated Paris since 25 yrs ago ... it's a cold, you die your biz place ... something like S'pore but with lousy winter weather. Of course if you're rich then it's a great place ... like Spore! LMAO!

Don't know what those people were doing, but they should have headed south earlier in the year. Plenty of harvesting jobs in the late summer & autumn periods.

Unless they have contacts & networks in big cities like Paris, getting even menial & service jobs is tough. Easier to get such jobs in smaller cities & towns (where there is still possibility of manufacturing, agricultural & other labour-intensive jobs).

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snowybearzzz
16/11/2017 08:17:30 pm

Paris is crap. Their subway is in disrepair, the non-atas streets are vandalised and generally felt very unsafe there. It felt very cold and third-world... unless of course you are in the fancy area.

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ERSG
16/11/2017 09:09:41 pm

that's exactly it. I walked thru the atas area feeling safe. I also wandered at the non atas area and I felt like I was gonna get mugged any minute.
but I enjoyed the place generally. a lot of things to learn. in the human nature sense.

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ERSG
16/11/2017 09:26:02 pm

strangely I like Paris more than the UK.
more things to see. roads are broader. UK and Paris are equally expensive tho.

although I don't like it when I go into some places and they have shitloads of retail staff from China to cater to the Chinese crowd.

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