We fixate on the easiest things to fixate on, and it becomes an easily attacked effigy for the real problem. When I lived in Mexico City, my friends would comp

We fixate on the easiest things to fixate on, and it becomes an easily attacked effigy for the real problem. When I lived in Mexico City, my friends would complain about gringos causing an increase in rents when the places they wanted to live for cheap were populated almost entirely by every Mexican who makes more money than they do. Yet there was this implication that if you could somehow shut down gringo tourism, there would be no competition for living in the nice apartments in the nice neighborhoods. They would be desperate for your 2000 pesos or something.