I just meant that capitalism deals sole with numbers giving them an easy OUT on the question of morality, etc. LOS is playing a theoretical game, which if we are unlucky, may take them 10 or 20 years to amend. Many of us will be past traveling age or dead by then.
I will continue to avoid touristy locations like the plague, and do what I always do, hit the outlying areas staying with Thai friends on occasion. I'm there for the whole package...got too old to do any real mongering. Heat, food, wacky sights, etc. Oh and lots of hammock time.
I just wish the bastards would pull their head out of their ass concerning cigars and pipe tobacco as the only available are few and FAR between and I am not setting fire to a $40 cigar. The two places I found that have pipe tobacco sell it for roughly $15 per pouch, and have VERY few selections. They should let long stayers bring their own stash if Thai's cannot supply it. You ain't gonna find any Gawith and Hogarth Balkan blend in LOS. Half pound is gone in 6 weeks or so. But I digress.