in retrospect it’s kinda weird that i, a hapless american, can just show up whenever i want in another country without speaking a word of the native language and expect to be kept alive by the power of money alone. one could imagine things turning out quite differently
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people whomst have been in lisbon say it’s unusually crowded with tourists this year and locals are maybe annoyed. it is sort of wack that tourists can just flood your town if too many moderately wealthy people start talking about it excitedly
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to my ratbrain the obvious econ 101 solution to this is to jack up prices (for food, hotels, etc) but *only* for tourists; the point here is to price in the negative externalities of tourism
wonder if this has been tried 🧐 or maybe the profits of tourism are too appealing
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haha nice
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I doubt this is an American-abroad thing, so much as a capitalist thing.
Where even in “”our”” land we expect to be kept alive via the power of money alone, rather than, say, intimacy with land and community and the food we tend
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I say “”our”” bc you know, native Americans and all.
The more I learn about how indigenous people were displaced from their native land, the more I’m like – wait, so was I! Do I even have native lands? They’re kind of far away, and I didn’t grow up there…
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I've always felt uneasy about this too. The notion of "I have money so you must accommodate me" feels kinda fucked up
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