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Europeans: Tourists Go Home!

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday August 13 2017, @08:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the Khalarsars-on-planes dept.

gawdonblue writes:

Australia's ABC reports on a growing backlash against the level of tourism in Europe, including in Spain where AirBnB rentals have driven up rental housing prices to levels where many locals cannot now afford to live there, and Dubrovnik where Game-of-Thrones tours are driving the locals nuts.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-12/european-tourism-angering-locals-as-visitor-numbers-grow/8792984

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @06:04PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @06:04PM (#553319)

    refugees are likely to be a long-term positive influence on the economy

    What kind of mental gymnastics does it take to reach this conclusion?

    Recognizing that refugees are just one type of immigrants.

    Or are you saying that, in the future, the refugees will all be engineers in charge of the automated machinery after peacefully integrating into their new society?

    Seems likely. Elon Musk, for example, may not be a refugee, but he is an immigrant.

    I'm not one of the enlightened ones, so please help me understand this "long-term" plan that everyone else seems to take as common sense.

    With a quick search [duckduckgo.com], I found this [theatlantic.com]:

    About 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded either by immigrants, or by the sons and daughters of immigrants. Companies like AT&T, IBM, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, McDonald’s, Goldman Sachs, eBay, Kohls, Comcast, Pfizer, Yahoo!, and many others were all founded by immigrants or their children. And U.S. companies founded by immigrants are only becoming more common; one study found immigrants started more than half of all billion-dollars startups, and that immigrants made up 70 percent of key management roles in those companies.

    (I also found out that Comcast was founded by a refugee, but I'm not sure which side of the argument that supports.)

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Monday August 14 2017, @12:50PM

    by Bot (3902) on Monday August 14 2017, @12:50PM (#553622) Journal

    > About 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded either by immigrants
    Americans are 99% immigrants... yeah, all those fortune 500 companies were founded after the previous generations of immigrants perpetrated a genocide on the natives, so I think we are not considering all factors in this analysis.

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