> be seafarer
> make 10–20x more than my cousin who sells coconuts back home
> literally the barangay Elon Musk when I visit the village
> onboard life: AC blasting, WiFi, Sunday STEAK, food so good I’m fat now
> officers eat the same meals, nobody starving, nobody crying
> suddenly feel oppressed.exe
> “this is a violation of my HUMAN RIGHTS ”
> human rights... because no karaoke machine?
> company.exe has stopped responding
> shipowner: “ok lol”
> hires Dutch dude instead who eats herring, doesn’t complain, no monkey business
> me and 50,000 kababayans: now back home eating sardines and rice
> entire country’s biggest foreign currency source: self-destructed
> all because steak wasn’t medium rare
> mfw we fired the cannon into our own foot

>>513434817 (OP)
>my cousin who sells coconuts

>>513434817 (OP)
Do you guys make good money? My fiancée’s cousin is a seafarer. He’s gone a lot and only seems to be able to get enough time off to come back home and get his wife pregnant. They both seem to cheat on each other too. They have a house with decent sized lot and motorbike in the province, guess they aren’t hurting for money at least.

>>513435092
>not married to the sea
he dun goof'd.

>>513435092
Lik i said atleast 10x the national average but we want double now. Cuz wypipo is discriminating.

https://swzmaritime.nl/news/2025/08/18/dutch-ruling-questions-global-seafarer-pay-system/

>>513435092
Also many such cases, thats basically the gold standard for seafarers there and in indochina.

>>513435152
It does sound silly, but not sure if needing money for a family pushed him into that trade in the first place. Seems like a deal with the devil when you think about it

>>513435177
That’s pretty decent post then. PH is getting expensive as fuck to live in though. Just 2 aircons running costs like $200 a month. Electric companies are turbokikes over there

>>513435294
Cheating in PH is such a weird meme too, so many marites in the barangay, nobody gets away with anything without everyone knowing about it

>>513435359
Yeah nobody has electricity I think, only seafarers lmao

Now my conspiracy pol brain thinks this ia a conserted effort to dsstroy dutch shipping, can anyone provide actual helpful insight what the long term ramifications of this will be? Theres already a construction for these SEAfarers to claim the european wages, literally less than 24h after this ruling. And the dutch shippers group has also already responded saying its basically a braindead ruling by tye college for human rights.

>>513434817 (OP)
>Flip goes to be a sailorcuck
>Timmies fuck all their women while away
Brutal. Should of had the IQ to be a Tech CEO like us