In Reply to: 10,000 notes posted by bali_jen on Friday, 6. May 2011 at 01:22 Bali Time:
The Balinese have swapped what sounded like an idyllic life pre-tourism (I've read numerous accounts by anthropologists) for a life of badly paid work, living in stinking hot airless concrete flats and sucking up to tourists, who as often as not treat them like sh*t.
Who got ripped off?