A closer look
Disneyland Paris experienced a massive wave of intense labor strikes where disgruntled cast members in full Mickey Mouse and Cinderella costumes marched directly through the theme park holding protest banners and demanding better wages from the notoriously stingy corporation. Guests who paid thousands of dollars for a magical family vacation were abruptly treated to the incredibly dystopian sight of beloved childhood mascots engaging in aggressive union action right in front of Sleeping Beauty's castle. There is perhaps no greater peak European travel experience than watching the manufactured joy of American capitalism completely break down at the hands of a furious, chain-smoking French labor syndicate fighting for a living wage
