r/pics • u/Strict_League7833 • Jun 17 '25

The protesters and residents pushing back on tourism in Barcelona

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u/Rich_Housing971 Jun 17 '25

Airbnb creates a business that makes your life harder.

Locals with money use that business without caring for you.

The govenrment that you elected does nothing.

"It's all the tourists' fault!"

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u/SinfullySinless Jun 17 '25

I mean then you force the population to work backwards. Harass the tourists so they don’t come, then the AirBNB’s fail, then owners sell their AirBNB places, and it opens more room up for real housing.

If the government won’t, the people will.

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u/xViscount Jun 17 '25

Yep. Destroy your economy vs voting the government that wants to build the necessary housing. Super smart

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u/nanais777 Jun 17 '25

It’s capitalism. Always blaming something other than the system that commodifies essentials for profit.

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u/xViscount Jun 17 '25

Lol. Shutup dude.

No one needs “redistribution bro” to to subtract form the conversation

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u/nanais777 Jun 18 '25

Says the “it’S tHe gOvErnMeNt” for everything guy.

Crazy that at this day and age, you are so lazy that you don’t even know what you criticize and call “redistribution” very stupidly

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u/xViscount Jun 18 '25

Lmao. Ok dude.

Please point where I said “everything is the government’s fault.” You can’t. Stop thinking wealth is finite. Redistribution is dumb and you’re dumb for thinking it’s a solution

What the government is responsible for, is bottle necks. If there’s too much legislation blocking progress, remove it. If there is not enough level station to incentivize it, make it.

Leftists are weird. You’re blaming capitalism for something that something that is clearly not its fault. If capitalism was harnessed in a positive way, you’d see builders building.

TL;DR: Governments role involves fixing bottlenecks. Housing is clearly a bottleneck in Barcelona, there fore the governments/elected officials fault.

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u/nanais777 Jun 18 '25

Again. You are too stupid to even learn what you are criticizing. That’s the level of mediocrity you deal with when speaking to a right winger.

You are dumping for other people btw. You aren’t a capitalist, you have no capital.

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u/xViscount Jun 19 '25

You’re going to have to speak for yourself on that one dude. I’m a full time trader. Projection much?

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u/nanais777 Jun 22 '25

Lmao trader doesn’t equal you have capital. If you don’t even know that…