• baines@lemmy.cafe
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      2 hours ago

      it’s already been made by others with obvious experience living there, you replied to it even

      then you handwaved all local suffering away with the argument locals should be thankful because money

      big douche energy there

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            Everyone needs a job to survive in this world. Workout actually, yes. Because it’s not a problem. It’s people complaining about their way of life. Most would not be able to live in those areas without something like that.

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              false equivalency much?

              and most still can’t live there anyway, they just have a job while not being able to afford living there

              almost like you have zero actual experience living in a tourist town and ignored the point in the first post in favor of vomiting your opinion all over the place

              anyway until you either admit you have no idea what you are talking about personally other than being a tourist or name an actual city you lived in with real direct experiences I’m done

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                Yes I have been a tourist in many many cities and I’ve seen the effect of industries. I’ve also traveled to many of the cities off the beaten path that have no tourism and have no other industries and I have witnessed how they’ve died. I was born and raised in a very small town in rural Nevada that is reliant solely upon the mining industry. I watched the ups and downs of that and I watched them trying over the last 20 years since I’ve left there try to become a tourist town and trying to encourage other industries because they realize that they have to do something and there’s no other industries out there that want to be there want to move there want to stay there and people don’t want to live there. Because there is nothing there to keep them.

                Edit: also very few can afford to live in that town either the cost of living is skewed unless you are working at the mine, 12 hours a day, underground. Tourism isn’t the only thing that destroys towns

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                  you’re right for sure it’s not

                  both situations are evil

                  it’s the exploitation, the extreme fucking over the people living and working there so the ownership class can make a few more dollars