Re:The Death of the Full Moon Party
by howlgarnish on Monday October 12, 2020 @05:42AM
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I probably shouldn't, but I'll bite: how does a dude with a laptop in a beachside cafe implement "the policy of a country seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of economic dominance"? They're likely not even paying taxes to their home country.
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Re:The Death of the Full Moon Party
by Mediterraneo10 on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:07PM
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> They're likely not even paying taxes to their home country.
They likely are. You meet a few DNs here and there who work entirely through cryptocurrency, but everyone else gets paid through ordinary bank channels that bring tax obligations.
Re:The Death of the Full Moon Party
by toomanybeersies on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:25AM
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The aim of colonialism (at least according to Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations [1]) was to exploit the New World's resources in order to accumulate wealth. Extending authority over these territories was just a means to this end.
These days, rather than the Spanish Empire stripping South America of its gold and silver, it's individual workers emigrating to countries with a low cost of living to maximise their own personal wealth.
[1] https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/119#Smith_0206-02_185
By this definition, any immigrant is a colonialist?
How exactly does this "exploit the New World's resources" given they will probably get less infrastructure than in their country of origin?
Re:The Death of the Full Moon Party
by toomanybeersies on Monday October 12, 2020 @07:42PM
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Read the book, or at least the chapter on colonialism (it's not too long), it answers both your questions.
Apologies for not giving you a proper reply, I'm just about to go to sleep.