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mrbradlymrmartin posted:having an economy centered around attracting tourist fuckos thats only gonna even be there part of the year is the problem i think barcelona has other things going for its economy besides tourism logikv9 posted:i mean the thing about tourism is that you either have it or you don't, it's a characteristic of that general location. they're going to have tourists no matter what because i guess the area is nice so it's up to them to either make money or don't i guess they could deter tourists by physically attacking them which is what they seem to have chosen
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itt barcelona is a monocultural resort town that is dead in the off season
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zeal posted:it's not real complicated. tourism stimulates growth in industries that exploit their workers and offer stable, lucrative returns only for capitalists and the higher levels of on-site management. the proceeds of tourism only ever concentrate in those few hands, while the wider community gets scraps in the form of food service, room service and (realistically) prostitution income. the greater tourism's share in the local economy, the more powerful those few hands become, which shapes how the community develops from there: civic funds will go to infrastructure for the tourist-heavy areas long before it goes to wherever the locals live, always with the pretext that 'our economy relies on keeping the tourists happy and comfortable'. someone brought up Myrtle Beach in South Carolina, but an even better example is Mexico's coastal tourist towns, heavily and deliberately subsidized by the central government from the 50s onwards, which effectively evolved into paired communities divided by huge wealth imbalances: glittering resort areas for the foreigners, while the people who served them in the hotels, cafes and resorts lived in slums with open sewage lines. a tourism economy necessarily requires a heavy servant element, and capitalism necessarily immiserates and degrades the lives of those servants to increase the profitability of tourist-catering enterprises sounds like they should be protesting against capitalism, or at the very least the government that facilitates it
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:just lol if you don't go full Fidel Castro when playing Tropico is the joke that fidel castro used tourism to sustain a socialist economy e: or at the very least a "socialist" economy if you want to have an argument about whether cuba is socialist, i can't keep up with that
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Plutonis posted:I went to Barcelona last march and every restaurant, museum and other attractions were pricier the gently caress out more than any place I visited except for Paris and by that alone I reconsidered my views on how Francisco Franco treated them during the Spanish Civil WAr go back to where you came from, tourist scum
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