@darius @restofworld I would never recommend anyone go to Bali now unless they had a specific plan to get out of the south. Horrid traffic and you can’t even get good local food easily, but you can get kombucha!

@darius @restofworld tbh attracting a disorganized upper class of individual remote workers seems a lot smarter than the normal economy-brain thing of courting a single consolidated industrial transnational employer with effectively zero-rated taxes and then slowly caving to their every demand and hollowing out social services as the local government realizes that their entire economy now depends on the whims of a single regional manager whose performance is evaluated based on tax efficiency

@darius @restofworld The term is a kind of newspeak, isn't it? Gives their huge carbon footprints, and a romantic touch.

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I love how the ONLY appearance of the phrase "minimum wage" is in the little mid-article infographic listing how painfully low it is in each of these places. Nowhere in the text is anyone saying that maybe, just maybe, raising it might help solve the "nobody from here can afford to live here any more" problem.