Mexico does in fact have regulations against operations like the one you are describing, because they are harmful to the environment.

Enforcing these regulations can be challenging, but I’ve seen people lose everything they own over similar violations.

For example, some Americans opened an Airbnb cabin operation on protected land near by where my mama lives. They ran the operation for about a year before the government caught whiff of it. One of the owners ended up with jail time because the land they destroyed to build those ugly-ass cabins was endangered salamander habitat.

The cabins got torn down and now that area is managed by the local university for wilderness restoration research.

Facts:

DXC fired ALL of their IT technicians servicing the Redmond Microsoft campus and replaced them with “Phoenix”, an AI chatbot that would guide users into troubleshooting their own IT problems.

The Phoenix chatbot was immediately rejected by users and completely useless at executing its intended purpose.

DXC then scrambled to rehire the technicians they fired with no success, as they quickly moved on to new jobs. New hires struggled to understand the building layouts and room devices because there was no one to pass on that knowledge.

Soon thereafter, DXC lost their multi-million dollar contract and all the new hires who worked really hard to try to were summarily dismissed.

I’m always torn when I see comments like this because I agree our country needs all the shaming and rejection in order to drive the average American to act. The shaming DOES help-- it cannot be denied.

But at the same time, being working class American is so fucking brutal, and it’s FAR worse when you are part of a marginalized group.

I am American but I did not grow up in the US, and it’s so obvious they all have been robbed of their sense of community because we are all being constantly bombarded by fear mongering narratives meant to drive up profits.

For example, kids are expected to move out at 18 because parents are weirdly concerned that their children wil turn into lazy and unproductive members of society. In reality, life is much easier when multiple generations live in the same home because even if you get on each other’s nerves, they are all at least in the same team like helping raise the children together.

Instead, they want everyone to be independent from their families because that’s more people paying rent, buying cars, products and services-- same reason why Netflix doesn’t want you sharing your account: so they can sell your friends and family their own to drive those profits up.

What is happening to America is happening to other countries as well. It’s not a moral failing unique to Americans.

It’s just that Americans already had weak public institutions as a younger nation and a very painful history full of racism, genocide, and exploitation that already was causing us great difficulty coming together to make the country a better place for everyone, and billionaires saw that as an opportunity to turn us against each other and profit from our fears.

If you don’t help the good parts of America in our battle against the bad parts of America, we will lose and you will have yet another Russia making the problems in your own country worse and worse until find yourself in the exact same position as we are.

Get involved in local politics in your country now. Don’t wait.

We all need to unite and fight against the worse parts of humanity. We’re all so tired of capitalism and exploitation. We want better. Please help us put an end to it wherever you can.

It is related to the increased calls to encourage the adoption of free and open source software, which are alternatives to corporate products. 🙂

Linux is finally becoming mainstream. I love it.

Do not conflate the people with the corporations.

And let’s not ignore the fact that many nations were happy to buy and profit until the USA government turned into a bargain sale for billionaires.

They took our coffee maker away and put one of those Keurig and everyone in my team complained and got real snarky with leadership until we got our old coffee maker back.

So wasteful.