Friday, June 14, 2024

"global nomad" visas are not a good solution to today's economic crises and tiktok fantasies

With the increase of "global nomad" visas (Japan, Spain, Portugal) we are going to see more and more middle-upper class and upper-class adults, a high percentage of foreigners, evicting locals (and their businesses, their deep-rooted social lives, etc.) from the centers of city's. Not all cities, but those that are safe (not US), have nice public transportation, cultural activities, and decent weather.

As this occurs, we will see corporations trying to recreate and sell cultural atmospheres of how life "used to be," locally, before this expulsion. By cultural atmospheres, I'm referring to cultural consumer products that people sell and that recreate some local historical or traditional aspects, for example, films, posters, hotel interior designs, etc. These local cultural fabrications of the past, of course, are acritical and say nothing of how we got from point A (past) to point B (present). In other words, info about the mistakes and the humans that made the poor decisions, are nowhere to be found. So we don't learn and this expulsion, economic polarization between rich and poor, increases. 

Then a socio-economic divide will grow thicker between locals and non-locals. The local economy will split between (for instance, in Spanish cities: el precio normal vs. el precio turista). 

Are you saying that an innocent nomad visa is related to a global split between rich and poor?!

Yes!

So you also benefit from this wrongdoing.

Yes...

(A long time ago, I wrote about this in the article, "La Barcelona nostálgica." Maybe I should update it...)