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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