Post #2194457
2026-04-25 15:23 UTC
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@EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-26 17:23
>In many of those areas, there isn't any other real industry. And this is the crux of the issue people have with tourist towns as well. Tourism as an industry drives up CoL through inflated property values and increased prices for basic essentials but is a low wage industry. An economy needs money to flow, but you need more than a low wage industry for a healthy area. Otherwise, you've basically just reinvented serfdom with a different product.
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@Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app 2026-04-25 17:35
>Yes, but you do realize that the people that live there work at those businesses. If tourism doesn’t exist in those areas, those jobs that they rely on wouldn’t exist. Trickle down economics on Lemmy, Christ. I suppose I should expand on that, my understanding of trickle down systems are those that benefit the rich at the expense of their poor. My argument for why it benefits the rich: your comment on the benefits of tourism. My arguments why those benefits come at the expense of the poor: their comment listing all the expenses those benefits come at.
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@baines@lemmy.cafe 2026-04-25 15:53
only because tourism in these places crowds out all other industry, often on purpose gotta keep local labor cheep for profits