[sahila]

>If anything, it's good for countries to have people coming in whose only effect in the economy is spending their money, better yet, money brought from elsewhere, an immediate net gain to that country's wealth.

This seems debatable, there is an influx of money to asset owning individuals at the expense of most other locals now having more competition for housing and services.

[moralestapia]

I do get the gentrification argument, but gentrification happens anyway since there's rich people everywhere.

Gentrification is not a net negative, since most of the time that money goes to someone on the local community.

That's also part of a broader issue, the issue of tourism, if an area is highly desired, prices will go up, this is natural. It's not related to people having a work permit or not, it's related to people willing to pay an extra for a particular product/service, it's a completely different thing.

So, coming back to the work permit thing ... why?

What is the difference between a guy on holiday that rents an AirBnB in Berlin for two months and spends 20k EUR there vs. a guy that writes code for a living for a US company and rents an AirBnB in Berlin for two months and spends 20k EUR there?