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by robjan 2581 days ago
A lot of digital nomads don't actually have the right to work in the country in which they are located
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Ssshhhh. You're killing the good vibes man. Don't let pesky things like laws get in the way of a good time.

Every time "digital nomad" comes up, there's an argument about "well that law is stupid, it deserves to be broken"... by foreigners breaking a law in some country they aren't a resident.

I wonder how many would be happy to also see the US/EU/AU etc also flooded by foreigners who turn up, and work illegally for ridiculously more than the locals do, without paying local taxes?

They have corps registered somewhere where you sign a contract with that corp that satisfy local regulations but the actual guy doing the job may be just sitting in the next local starbucks doing job technically illegally.

You get 1/4-1/2 of ongoing local rate for the same quality.

You be the judge of risk/reward ratio of course.

And this gets far more messy the moment they come to the clients country and start working on a tourist visa.