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© 2018 AFPLet it grow: Tokyo DisneySea adds 'Frozen' section in ¥250 bil expansion
By Toshifumi Kitamura TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Steve Martin
Frozen?
Well here is the opening passage from one 'hot off the press' message received in my mail-feed from 'Courage Campaign'.
"Eight-five percent of Disneyland workers are paid less than minimum wage and three-quarters of them say they aren’t able to pay for basic expenses every month.(1) This isn't what you'd expect from the "happiest place on Earth."
Yet this is the reality while the Walt Disney Company brings in billions of dollars in profit each year -- including almost 20 billion dollars last fiscal year alone from their theme parks.(2) While they’re swimming in profits, their workers are left to choose between paying rent or buying food for the month.
... Meanwhile, Disney CEO Robert Iger made over $36 million last year."
Yeah ... 'Frozen' — as in the only kind of dinner those boots-on-the-ground Disneyland workers will be able to afford.
Neo-liberal 'Pirates of the Caribbean' just following the laws of the market, that 'blind- hand' thingy?
Or ... 'more like guidelines' .... for corruption and greed.
Joshua Tompkins
In response to Steve Martin above, does a quote of a news article covering Disneyland employees in California really apply to a theme park in Japan that's owned and operated by The Oriental Land Company?