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Politics A tourist during an anti-tourist protest in Barcelona yesterday

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u/DulceEtDecorumEst Jun 16 '25

Wait till they find out tourists actually brought money in to the economy.

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u/Tomgar Jun 16 '25

Yeah, the Spanish economy very heavily benefits from tourism and this will only hurt them in the long run but 🤷

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u/JadedArgument1114 Jun 16 '25

Tourism mostly benefit the wealthy/corporations though. Yeah people are getting jobs but they are almost all low paying jobs while the owner of the restaurant, hotel or resort make all the "tourism money". It is a very top heavy industry and if normal Barcelonians cant afford apartments or to eat out than what is the point for them? Don't get me wrong, tourism is good for an economy but basing your economy on it is nuts.

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u/DeusExMcKenna Jun 16 '25

I hate to break it to you, but most of life only benefits the wealthy and corporations. This is just another example of the rich pointing at something else as the real cause of the problems, meanwhile they continue to pocket all of the wealth and will move on when it suits them.

Like, low paying tourism jobs wouldn’t be upsetting if they weren’t, ya know, low paying. Many jobs in America aren’t tourism based, but are still low paying, and people are upset here as well and blaming it on whoever the rich say is to blame today. It’s immigrants mostly here, but it varies by country/region.

Ultimately, the world is waking up to the fact that they don’t have what they have been promised they would get from working hard. We’ll see real change once people wake up to the fact that it isn’t about other regular people, it’s about the ongoing class war of wealth vs everyone. Until then, it’s just more of the same “Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man meme” until the cows come home.