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Digital Nomads Are Exploiting the World
We all know they’re insufferable, but they’re also making the world worse.
In one video he weighs up the pros and cons of Russia’s new “anti-woke” visa, which offers residency permits to anyone who agrees with a set of "traditional spiritual and moral values"; in another, he ponders which countries are “not part of the Great Reset,” referring to a racist conspiracy theory—inspired by an existing plan of the same name by the World Economic Forum—which posits that elites are plotting to institute a tyrannical global government. In the spirit of universalism, you might defend the right of digital nomads to live wherever they want, but this right is not under threat: they are pandered to at every turn; economically disadvantaged countries are competing to entice them, and while there is growing local discontent in places like Mexico City and Lisbon, there have been no rampaging mobs carrying out pogroms against SEO consultants and Medium bloggers. As a remote worker, it doesn’t really matter how pure-hearted, curious and humble you are, or whether you eschew networking events, co-working and “Nomad cruises” in favor of learning the language, frequenting only independent local businesses and getting involved with community activism: you will still probably be contributing to a process of displacement and gentrification; your search for a better life will probably come at the expense of someone else.
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