3.1M Commanders on Instagram: "Mario Salcedo, better known as “Super Mario,” has lived full-time aboard Royal Caribbean cruise ships for 25 years, calling the open sea home since 1997. Spending about $70,000 a year, he gets food, entertainment, internet, and nonstop travel—without rent or property taxes."

$2.50 an hour. That’s how much the crew aboard Carnival Cruises are paid to run cruise ships up, down and around the Australian coast. This is some of the worst exploitation we have ever seen. Carnival has three Australian “home port” ships – to support this fleet, Carnival flies workers in from poor countries, picks them up from the airport and puts them to work on short-term contracts. Crew aboard these ships are often working 300 hours per month, being paid as little as AUD $2.50 an hour. Not