It’s $40k/year that includes all living expenses as far as I can tell (with options to upgrade for better food, drinks, and lodging, of course). There are liberal retirees who would otherwise be in assisted living but don’t need the sort of medical resources that a full on retirement home provides whom this isn’t an awful deal for if you don’t think about it too hard
Cruises have wifi right? Full time WFH might be able to make something work too.
You may have to pay for your bandwidth, and it’s usually slow. I don’t think it’s consistant enough to be used for work if you have to upload files or have conference calls.
But anyway, I don’t think that liberal retirees and desk workers privileged enough to be allowed to fully work from home are the demographic that will have to hide on a cruise ship.