Governments like to preach about “development,” but when you strip away the sugar-coated words, what is really happening is the slow sellout of communities in exchange for foreign money.
Community livelihoods and public access are being sacrificed so the government can boast of tourist attractions, luxury hotels, and high-end real estate projects.
Meanwhile, the very people who built this nation with their sweat and labor are being pushed aside, displaced, and made uncomfortable in their own land.
Let’s be real, housing is one of the biggest issues for people, yet it’s always treated as if it’s impossible to solve.
When it comes to building homes for ordinary citizens, the process is often marred by delays, excuses, red tape, and roadblocks.
But let a foreign investor, the rich, or the famous come knocking?
Suddenly, land is cleared overnight, heck, land is even given to them free, approvals are granted without hesitation, and every possible convenience is offered on a silver platter.
That alone exposes the truth, the government’s priorities are not with the people, they are with investors and the lure of quick cash.
The irony is sickening, if the same eagerness, speed, and resources that are given to tourism development were directed toward housing for citizens, this nation would not be in such a crisis.
Families wouldn’t be cramped in poor conditions, young people wouldn’t have to put their dreams on hold because they can’t afford to own a home, and communities wouldn’t be left struggling for the basics.
But the truth is simple, the people are not the highest interest of the government, Money is, Investments are, Foreign applause is.
But here’s the uncomfortable question, what happens when tourism slows down? What happens when people reduce travel, when global conditions shift, when the flow of tourists no longer brings the “big money” leaders are chasing?
Those empty, lifeless structures will be left to rot, while the people who should have been prioritized from the beginning are still in need, still without secure housing, still fighting to survive.
A government that places tourism above its own people is a government that has lost its soul.
Development without the people is not development, it’s exploitation.
A nation that builds castles for outsiders while its citizens beg for shelter is one that is heading for collapse.
If leaders truly cared about the future, they would invest first in their own people, because when the hotels, resorts, and luxury condos stand empty, it is the strength, resilience, and creativity of the people that will keep the nation alive, not foreign investors.
When there is no longer a strong tourist flow, the same people that they try to neglect, are the sames ones they have to run to, by pushing the deceptive "Stacations" to get hotels fill.
Government needs to do better, and the people need to wake up to see, the "Truth".
The people need to see how their government is operating with them.
The same hotels that help pushed them out of their communities, the same hotels that some of the people work hard and sweat in the boiling heat of the sun to build.
Those hotels are using psychology on them, as to get them to fill their hotels, when the flow of tourists is slow.
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