Like so many others, I moved from London to Portugal’s capital for the sun, lifestyle – and the tax break. But as tensions rise with struggling locals, many of us are beginning to wonder whether we’re doing more harm than good …
So, whole towns, maybe countries are being gentrified now? And these towns, countries might have done that deliberately? Mad?
Sounds like it, we just have to ignore the basis of our fucking capitalist/nationalist system. You need to attract capital to survive, and when you do, it fucks you over. And it can do it easily, cause it can just say screw you, if you don’t play ball, I go to another nation state.
And then people are being told to get angry at the foreigners, the internationalists, the Jews, the gays, until of course bad things are starting to happen. And we’ve been played by this cycle for centuries by now. It’s been analysed, talked about, a little bit fought about, things got a little better after some world wars, and now we’re at the end of a cycle again, and everybody’s shocked. SHOCKED.
So, whole towns, maybe countries are being gentrified now? And these towns, countries might have done that deliberately? Mad?
Sounds like it, we just have to ignore the basis of our fucking capitalist/nationalist system. You need to attract capital to survive, and when you do, it fucks you over. And it can do it easily, cause it can just say screw you, if you don’t play ball, I go to another nation state.
And then people are being told to get angry at the foreigners, the internationalists, the Jews, the gays, until of course bad things are starting to happen. And we’ve been played by this cycle for centuries by now. It’s been analysed, talked about, a little bit fought about, things got a little better after some world wars, and now we’re at the end of a cycle again, and everybody’s shocked. SHOCKED.
And I’m bloody sick of it.