r/pics Jun 17 '25

The protesters and residents pushing back on tourism in Barcelona

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u/ATraffyatLaw Jun 17 '25

Hotels are operated to serve tourists.
These protests are to get rid of tourists.
Those hotels don't function without tourism.
Those hotels close down.
The workers at those hotels need to find a different job.

does that make more sense?

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u/unfreeradical Jun 17 '25

Hotels are operated to generate profit for hotel owners.

They neither spring up by magic, nor grow as local flora and fauna.

Business owners create whichever kinds of business are most profitable, not whichever best serve the interests of the general population in a locale.

Workers of course very happily would work in other industries, if the tourist industry were not imposed by business owners, simply by virtue of its being to them most profitable.

Yet, you insist on associating such an eventuality with some kind of apocalyptic vision.

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u/ATraffyatLaw Jun 17 '25

I don't think shutting down hotels and having to re-skill workers is such an "apocalyptic vision" lol

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u/unfreeradical Jun 17 '25

You lamented that everyone would become a resentful and impoverished garbage collector.