The whole concept is baffling to me. People don’t like immigrants as it is, why would they take kindly to “digital nomads” proclaiming citizenship in a “networ

The whole concept is baffling to me. People don’t like immigrants as it is, why would they take kindly to “digital nomads” proclaiming citizenship in a “network state”? Proclaiming a permanently foreign identity and banding together to demand preferential treatment. It’s the polar opposite of the model immigrant, who seeks to assimilate and become a citizen that contributes equally to local society. Not only that, they even seek entire cities to themselves complete with favorable tax treatment, worse than an anti-immigration activist’s most farfetched strawman depiction of an immigrant neighborhood! Sounds like being politically invisible as “some odd expats/tourists” is saving these people’s skins.