Great piece on @restofworld about "digital nomads" and their effect on the places they inhabit.

restofworld.org/2023/digital-n

> “I used to go out to eat every Friday,” [head of local tourism board] Heredia said. “Only at current prices, I can’t afford to.” And yet Heredia supported hosting nomads in the city. [...] I observed that her quality of life had been directly affected by their presence. “Yes,” she said, “but it’s better for the economy.”

economy-brain is a hell of drug 🙃

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Glyph

@darius @restofworld tbh attracting a disorganized upper class of individual remote workers seems a lot smarter than the normal economy-brain thing of courting a single consolidated industrial transnational employer with effectively zero-rated taxes and then slowly caving to their every demand and hollowing out social services as the local government realizes that their entire economy now depends on the whims of a single regional manager whose performance is evaluated based on tax efficiency

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Wim 🅾

@darius @restofworld The term is a kind of newspeak, isn't it? Gives their huge carbon footprints, and a romantic touch.

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Gracious Anthracite

@darius @restofworld

I love how the ONLY appearance of the phrase "minimum wage" is in the little mid-article infographic listing how painfully low it is in each of these places. Nowhere in the text is anyone saying that maybe, just maybe, raising it might help solve the "nobody from here can afford to live here any more" problem.

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