1,570,000,000 – that's how many freelancers there were in the world at the beginning of the year. That's 47% of the entire working population of the Earth" -
that's how the post the feed just brought me began.
Google Photos brought the memory that "a year ago at this day..." I was at a meeting of digital nomads in Buenos Aires.
I remember it as if it were yesterday (although it was today) - two my hostel neighbors took me there. One was a Russian-speaking online coach (either Russian or Ukrainian, I don’t remember), who lived either in Europe or South America (I swear, I don’t remember any identification marks to be assigned to any place).
The second was an Australian living in Canada - that’s what I remember, because she was walking around in uggs October in Buenos Aires, basically in the hot spring.
So the latter offered to go to the bar in Palermo, where in a space of an old New York subway car the groups of people were standing like at a network conference, except with smoke and lounge music.
It was a real melting pot. It’s so great that people from all the continents gathered in one place. In a couple of months, they won’t be here, but some others will, so the melting pot will go on, and this is so great!
But let me ask, for whom?
Who exactly profits?
The melting pot themselves? It's commonly known that high population's mobility burdens local economy, infrastructure and immobility market and corrupts the services by the very fact that the audience isn't supposed to be constant.
The place they were educated in and left?
So who exactly are beneficiaries of that the considerable part of adult population doesn't have families pets permanent residence place they care of and responsible for and, as soon as something goes wrong, pack the packs and go elsewhere?
And I tell. Corporations are. Thank's to the high population's mobility they get a high assortment of highly disposable workforce.
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2moVery well said, Happy International Youth Day to you too.