You have to be able to afford to spend thousands to go to any major tourist destination far from you in the U.S. or Europe when you factor in the cost of air travel, hotel cost and food, not to mention any attractions you might want to see while there.
If you can afford to “scrape together” enough to do that, you are not poor. It really sounds like your privilege is showing.
Plane Tickets for a city trip between European capitals are like 20-50€
Tickets to the most popular holiday destinations are regularly possible to get for less than 100€
Sure it’s not for the poorest 20-30% but I was mostly talking about the huge amount of people in the middle class.
My point is that it doesn’t matter - you can always choose. The American settlement-style of making it impossible to do stuff on foot even within cities is one of the very few things I’d count as something where you don’t really have a choice.
You have to be able to afford to spend thousands to go to any major tourist destination far from you in the U.S. or Europe when you factor in the cost of air travel, hotel cost and food, not to mention any attractions you might want to see while there.
If you can afford to “scrape together” enough to do that, you are not poor. It really sounds like your privilege is showing.
Plane Tickets for a city trip between European capitals are like 20-50€
Tickets to the most popular holiday destinations are regularly possible to get for less than 100€
Sure it’s not for the poorest 20-30% but I was mostly talking about the huge amount of people in the middle class.
My point is that it doesn’t matter - you can always choose. The American settlement-style of making it impossible to do stuff on foot even within cities is one of the very few things I’d count as something where you don’t really have a choice.