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It depends on your social class. The people interviewed in the article are all highly-paid software workers who can negotiate good working conditions. Meanwhile
by Bakary 4y ago
It depends on your social class. The people interviewed in the article are all highly-paid software workers who can negotiate good working conditions. Meanwhile, people who don't have the funds to move around have to deal not only with the local inflation and decrease in living standards but also with the gentrification that comes from the nomads. In places like Portugal, it's approaching dire proportions already. They can no longer aspire to own a home or have a living standard equal to that of their parents.
You could then ask why workers don't just learn to code, but the quality of life of digital nomads also depends on others not having the possibility, aptitude, or natural interest for doing those jobs.
I agree that in many ways life is better, but there are also multiple indicators for it getting worse and more feudalistic due to the accretion of wealth.
- saiya-jin 4y agoIts also lifestyle when you are young and alone, not when you ie want to start family. For me I preferred (before starting family) to have 3-4 far away backpacking vacations and come back to green mild climate civilized safety and mountains. Now with family, it would be incredibly selfish from me to do this to them (although I know few parents who do it... not much respect there)
- ThalesX 4y ago> Now with family, it would be incredibly selfish from me to do this to them (although I know few parents who do it... not much respect there) Growing up, my dad would take me one month before school ended for the year, travel the world with me while mum stayed at home, then came back one month after school year started. This was met with a lot of 'not much respect', by both family members and broader society, but as an adult, those were the best moments of my life and I am grateful my father was never one for taking society's judgement to heart.