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im sure these idiots just chalk it up to RAcIsM too, privileged just cant understand that some people actually don't want their money and don't want they're country turned into a sideshow.
Eh, blaming tourists for your local capitalists reorienting the entire economy around them is missing the point. The productive response is to use your government to restrain the capitalists so tourists don't have a negative effect.
Tell that to a lot of 3rd worlder who can't afford local prices anymore, but it seems like many of you frequent fliers dont think or care about your consumerist behaviours.
I'm sorry tourists own all your local businesses and keep raising prices on themselves and you. Do the tourists also control your local government so you can't build more, denser housing and better transit?
Yep, this is a classic issue that could be solved if you have a government that cares about protecting you. You can control how many tourists you let in your nation.
This mythical government could exist
Napal, Tibet, Tajikistan all limit tourists severely. Meanwhile I buy breakfast in Hanoi from between <1USD and 15 depending if I go to a place that serves locals or tourists. In places where there's competition, I can pay like 2-10USD a night for a bunk to an entire apartment. In places where the local capitalists use the local government to increase their profits at the expense of the workers, I generally avoid because fuck that.
Most of these places wouldnt exist without tourism. We see alot of population decrease and eventual vanishing of rural villages. So unless your place is a strategic trade hub or has some remarkeable industry, it most likely only exists because of tourism. The problem however is in these times, tourists money doesnt go to locals but to big international hotel/restaurant/shopping/cruise companies.
Have you ever considered that some people are just ok with that? Sounds like a bunch of consumereristic nonsense to me
Tell that to the business owners who have families to take care of and are profiting off of tourism.
They'd just do something else if there was no tourism or it never existed, but I'm sure you didn't think about that
Everyone would do something else if there were no profits in what they were doing. If there were no profits in being a farmer then someone would be a plumber and if there were no profits in that then they would do something else. I think it mostly goes without saying that people want to earn money when they have bills to pay and they will do what earns them money
This comment sounds stupid and that's because it's replying to something stupid
yes, the idea that your actions dont affect other, it is quite stupid. you don't need others money to be happy but you definitly need it to buy food if you don't grow it or supplys if you don't make it. something many of these people stuggle with because people from out of the country out price you simply because they were born in a wealthier nation, something you definitely don't care about.
Those people literally might not even be tourists. It’s absolutely impossible to know.
-the tourist part and you get an even worse problem. Locals (likely profiting of this) vs locals (who don't want the bloat and over competition of local supply to these higher earners who don't even live there) 1st worlders really are stuck in they're own little ideological echo-chamber, the downside of mindless consumerism and unchecked liberalism without a care for who actually facilitated the nation to begin with. It's gross.
So force the ones profiting to increase supply, failing that, have the government build it themselves. China proves you don't need to let a handful of companies artificially restrict the housing supply and food prices.