Globalisation has moved production from the west to cheap labour in China and other parts of southeast Asia with increasing profits for companies in Europe and the U.S .

Loads of cheap products are washed over the western world by an ever increasing infrastructure of cargoships as well as couriers(trucks and planes) obviously with quite an impact on the environment (you see cities of cargoships anchored in strategic places).

The companies of Silicon Valley(who highjacked our dopaminsystem) also have their tentacles spread and with a large number of offspring companies registered in tax paradises both these phenomenons create an elite referred to as "stinking rich". Being "stinking rich" you need a megayacht and the Mediterranean is the number one place for its location. Subsequently this trend of an ever increasing number of megayachts in the Med followed by change of infrastructure for cruising the Med says something about the state of the world.

In the meantime more and more people are occupied with what is sometimes referred to as "bullshit jobs" sitting behind laptops creating data and statistics of importance to no one. During vacations the experience industry again (after the pandemia) travels billions of people every year with enormous impact on its destinations and obviously on the environment ( a restaurantowner in Santorini since 20 years told us high season the last years have been "disgusting"). 

I once met a very sympathetic megayachtowner. He made a fortune from a company registered in a taxparadise (creating apps). When onboard he used his Tinderapp for meeting women in different ports in the Med, and like many of us he didn`t read books but loved to watch soapoperas or adventureprograms. His smartphone was always close and no long conversation without checking his phone.

These phenomenons are very common for most of us today and I can`t resist to refer to Aldous Huxley and Brave New World from 1932. To me it seems as if most of his dystopic predictions have come true....