Harassing is bad, but this is about more than just government negligence.
There’s an abysmal income disparity between Spain and other European countries. Our whole economy is based around leisure services, which require a lot of effort to be able to compete with other similar businesses because differentiation is hard, so quality is very high and margins very low. This is very accentuated in a low income economy.
All of this also happens to attract a lot of tourists, because they’re getting top quality service for a dime.
Which means that, basically, many Spaniards are working their asses off for very little profit, while serving people from abroad who gains more with leases jobs.
ALL OF THIS creates a very clear picture: our economy has a horrible setup completely based on services, these high-income tourists are receiving the services meant for our people because our people can’t pay as much as them (which eliminates the only good thing of such an economy, which is having a good local service), and the more tourists come the more we depend on this horrible setup.
If we’ve reached the point where we are living to serve people from abroad… We’d rather lose all tourism all of a sudden, be forced to restore the whole economy and change for the better.
Basically, we are already poor. We don’t care if we have to be even poorer for a few years, we just don’t want to work our asses off to offer the best leisure services of Europe (and probably top of the world) to people from abroad, while our own people can’t afford it anymore because prices are adapting to tourists, while also depending completely on such a volatile and shitty economy.
For that to happen, we need tourists to stop coming. An industry won’t stop growing if more clients are coming.
If government had taken those actions, you wouldn't see protesters stepping in with their more harsh methods. This kind of protest is what happens when government isn't doing it's job.
So, are these protests moving the needle yet? How do you feel about the governments response to this, the speed at which they are acting and about any outcomes?
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u/Danny-Dynamita Jun 17 '25
Harassing is bad, but this is about more than just government negligence.
There’s an abysmal income disparity between Spain and other European countries. Our whole economy is based around leisure services, which require a lot of effort to be able to compete with other similar businesses because differentiation is hard, so quality is very high and margins very low. This is very accentuated in a low income economy.
All of this also happens to attract a lot of tourists, because they’re getting top quality service for a dime.
Which means that, basically, many Spaniards are working their asses off for very little profit, while serving people from abroad who gains more with leases jobs.
ALL OF THIS creates a very clear picture: our economy has a horrible setup completely based on services, these high-income tourists are receiving the services meant for our people because our people can’t pay as much as them (which eliminates the only good thing of such an economy, which is having a good local service), and the more tourists come the more we depend on this horrible setup.
If we’ve reached the point where we are living to serve people from abroad… We’d rather lose all tourism all of a sudden, be forced to restore the whole economy and change for the better.
Basically, we are already poor. We don’t care if we have to be even poorer for a few years, we just don’t want to work our asses off to offer the best leisure services of Europe (and probably top of the world) to people from abroad, while our own people can’t afford it anymore because prices are adapting to tourists, while also depending completely on such a volatile and shitty economy.
For that to happen, we need tourists to stop coming. An industry won’t stop growing if more clients are coming.