Unpopular Opinion
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1. NO POLITICS
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I work in the industry and see how the industry treat it's workers, climate and environment.
For me it's more important to future proof our species then feeding some capitalist hedgefund dollars.
Flagging the ships to countries with proper societal structures with military defence and laws is beneficial for everyone except the sharks. Lemmy is pretty anti-capitalist untill their cheap Chinese electronics are under threat.
IMO has codes to better the conditions at sea with SOLAS, MARPOL and MLC. With a foot inside the industry you are a fool to see these regulations are far from enough.
The regular philipine seaman is onboard 9 months on a single contract, and has to get a new contract for the next time. The regular western seafarer has a 1/1 rotation with an employment contract with a shipping company.
More expensive shipping forces less shipping. Which might re-establish local industries. Europe made much of its stuff before. Now it's moved to cheap countries in the east. Norway sends fish to china for processing, it gets sent back and sold in Norway. This is insane to me.
Norway has 1 shoe maker left. Other Norwegian shoemakers has their head office in Norway, but production is moved to Asia.