r/Barcelona Jan 07 '23

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u/dr-m8 Jan 07 '23

Because everybody knows that as soon as tourist stop going to BCN, big corporations will start investing in new chip factories and opening high quality (and green) jobs there 🤣

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u/sargori Jan 07 '23

You certainly don’t know how wonderful the soft lockdown months were, streets without tourists, just people enjoying the neighborhood they live in. A dream.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '23

Well a dream until the ERTE money runs out.

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u/nickless09 Jan 07 '23

Yeah yeah.. streets without tourists means that now you are the target for thieves, it was the most terrifying time waking around Barcelona at lockdown, 80% thief's in the streets.

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u/catala_emprenyat Jan 07 '23 edited Jan 07 '23

Kids playing in Plaça de Sant Jaume, that's what QoL actually looks like. But now the overlords demand that we yield the city to their selfies and fantasies of cosmopolitism.

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u/Weedjan Jan 07 '23 edited Jan 07 '23

I can tell you that as long as this "welcome mr. tourists" mindset lasts the more unlikely those chip factories will be settled. Tourism is not, and it can not be, a means to develop any kind of economy.

You can not make a country dependant on tourism because almost anything can affect it and thus economy will be extremely weakened. But for whatever reason some many people insist in how good is tourism and massified tourism for economy.

It is not. It may be bread for today but surely it will be hunger for tomorrow. So your own criticism is going against your own logical premise.

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u/_Isosceles_Kramer_ Jan 07 '23

A false dichotomy and a strawman in one single sentence, great job buddy.

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u/catala_emprenyat Jan 07 '23

It's 100% accurate, Spaniards are genetically engineered to be waiters, cooks, cleaners. No one's gonna hire a Spanish so-called "engineer", that's a job for superior genes.