[Rinzler89]

>we're talking local construction workers FFS.

But you don't fix that by offering tax breaks to well off laptop tourists from abroad. You fix that by investing in those construction workers and giving them tax breaks.

>Observing the tug-of-war HN votes on my post, some people must have taken that footnote as a cue for their ideological warfare du jour. Poor-vs-rich! Pitchforks now!

You seem to be victimizing yourself over nothing as people are allowed to have diverging options. It's not due to poor vs rich ideology as you imagine, is that those rich people you root for and the ones Portugal attracts don't contribute much to Portugal's economy or success but on the contrary help cause gentrification.

Investing in those construction workers that left might be better than investing in some foreign web devs who are here just for the partying and tax breaks.