You might think that you're a responsible and ethical traveler, but are you really?
I talk with Alexandra Pastollnigg, who is the Founder of FairVoyage.
She climbed Kilimanjaro.
She's biked from Cairo to Cape Town.
She's gone a few days without a shower.
Such experiences transformed her.
It made her think about the ethics of how she travels.
It made her realize that she's voting for something whenever she spends her money on travel.
She could be supporting a despotic regime or a terrible employer.
I ask her:
- Why did your Kilimanjaro trek change your life?
- Why is earning $2 a day bad if your costs are only $1.80?
- Is a shitty job better than no job?
- Aren't some of today's shit jobs the dream jobs of the 19th century?
- What did you learn from biking across Africa?
- Are you just another person suffering from the White Savior Complex?
- What are common mistakes people make when planning their travel?
- If you could magically switch people's travel habits, what would happen?
- What kind of premium do FairVoyage trips incur?
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