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they're right, op
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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
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Aug 5, 2017 15:04
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Badger of Basra posted:sounds like they should be protesting against capitalism, or at the very least the government that facilitates it they are. they're telling the tourists to go home
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Aug 5, 2017 15:12
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itt: goons outraged that their willingness to be robbed blind by exploitative businesses does not automatically make them welcome among the people those businesses exploit for cheap, desperate labor
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Aug 6, 2017 13:55
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babypolis posted:im sorry but if you hate tourists you are basically just a dumb xenophobic gently caress. everyone should travel more lol
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