emh wrote:I had to laugh about your comment re: too many staff in the department stores. About 3 years ago, I was living in Davao and went to the mall to buy some underwear. There were literally 4 or 5 women working in the men's underwear department. Seriously. I mean, wtf? Who needs help buying underwear. And wouldn't one person be sufficient???
That's a Western Mindset.
In Asia, China too, it makes more sense to hire many at low wages and maintain social cohesion, than to automate the process with machines, fire everyone and 'do it cheaper and more efficient'.
China is the king of this. They perform many manufacturing and construction techniques by hand, when the machine to automate the process is, in many cases, over 150 years old. It keeps those 600 million lower class rural workers employed.
Mobile phone stores have so many clerks, retail and super markets have 5 girls per aisle.
I don't see how this is a bad thing. In the USA there is one woman per store, she's too busy, all the guys hit on her, and she is stuck up and fat and ugly.
Be grateful that there are sane societies where interaction with women is still common.
The RP has beautiful beaches, it's impossible to take a bad photograph, and the ocean is everywhere.
The rest of it, as I have written, is not that great.