Thank you for this insightful article about the ugly underbelly of tourism and second homes in prime tourist destinations (“The expensive fantasy of Goa displaces Goans and runs on cheap migrant labour”). I have seen or heard of these same terrible wealth disparities in Cancun, Mexico, and in Abu Dhabi. Most visitors seem to be blind to the service workers who scrape by on minimal wages.

Workers need better pay, but we tourists in the meantime could at least tip more handsomely, share what we can from our excess possessions and treat service workers as human with dignity. We should remember that service-workers struggle so that we invaders can relax and enjoy the climate.

I wish I had something to say about the fatcats who price locals out of their own neighborhoods. It is disgraceful. I have........

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