Every airport is struggling for the most part because they lost all staff over the past few years and have to hire them all back at once. Besides I was at Schiphol recently and it was fantastic -- no queues. I didn't notice any issue with restaurants in Amsterdam. Housing costs in AMS are also relatively acceptable in my opinion.
Have a few statistics and a lot of anecdata been stretched to their breaking point in this article? Is there even a problem?
*In the West.
Come to Dubai, Doha, Riyadh or any of the eastern airports and you won't find any problems. Probably your are going to find even better service.
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And of course that's without talking about countries America destroyed and stole their Natural resources like Iraq.
In this case, I abhor the US stance on prison labor enough that I feel compelled to agree with you. It does not excuse any of the slavery in the Middle East, but the US does have its own issues. As a clarification, the lowest wage I could find was $0.13/hr, so not a month for a dollar, but not functionally different ($1/day or so).
As for the Middle East wars... yeah. Not a fan of those.
A grand total of 6 lines for all departing flights?