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The agencies just trying to take care of those stupids waking up every morning. Helping them to feel "smart" is very honourable, isn't it? TiT-style "social work" for foreigners. The only problem is that there are not enough stupids waking up every day to cater to all those new agencies offering the "unique" service. The same inflationary market extortion, like 33 weed shops and 77 Restaurants in every block.

Unrighteousness pops up frequently. Even if it's not "new". "New" is the coming change of taxing rules for foreign residents in Thailand (state revenue), and a lot of whining about it. All the (obviously) so "well-off" Ex-pats here, mocking their pension-dependent fellows, could also have considered any change of tax rules before. Personally, I think the taxing of foreign residents is well justified. 😂

Good question. There might be some context to the Globalist-, and WEF-agenda. These are the masters of the hypocrite "Leftists" in power. These democracy "safeguards" get a kind of "brown envelopes" from there. Same, same (corruption), but different. At a higher level. The water-carrying, ideological idiots are the fewer. Useful at the moment, like the brainwashed voting sheep. Later, "deplorable"?

The cluster fxck reaction to those So-called "traitors" daring to leave their European home SH, by moving to another country to spend their own earned pension. Instead of spending it into the "woke", corrupt, but bankrupt eco-system. Aka, not supporting the globalist population exchange program, mostly with antisemitic low-live cavemen, of incompatible "cultures".

...and the clown-show, about elusive dreams doesn't stop.

Most of these idiots are getting some set up right in the shop, where they purchased the new "pos". With a newly created Apple ID or a new Google account right on the spot. Like "idiot#987654321 [email protected], or [email protected]. Just to make the basic functions work somehow, and the customer is happy. The "pos" is sending all the personal data anywhere into all those "super-safe" clouds. Aka, surveying them, even in the local restroom, to provide "personalized" offers and "experiences". They annoy you with 12-factor authentications, fingerprints, and KYCs, only to make sure it's really "your" data they're collecting. Only for your own safety. My 13-year-old son was asked for KYC, an ID card, photos, etc., for a stupid gaming platform. "Safety" and "secure" are the most abused terms in present times. I'm waiting for some kind of "DNA" authentication to achieve complete control and transparency, but only for the surveyors. A chip "implementation" wouldn't be so bad. At least the advantage is that it would save many "screen-staring" guys from stumbling around and many other accidents... What goes around, comes around.

They want to get prepared for the digital wallet! Perhaps they could use the 10k Baht to pay that pos off. Lol. Btw, most of them use the devices just to take selfies and show off. If they'd really use all the capabilities of a smartphone nowadays, they wouldn't change it so often. To change your phone, set up your personal system preferences, reinstall, and set up all your apps, the credentials, and two-factor authentications for accounts, wallets, or anything can be a time-consuming nightmare. Even with a backup. I avoid it as long as possible. The scam, to force you to get a new device by rejecting the use of some apps due to not installable OS or app updates anymore, is appearing more frequently.

Exactly. The big money sits in countries, which are not participating in clubs like the OECD. This was also a political aim to join it, to polish their reputation. The additional Tax revenue is a welcomed side effect at first glance. Without thinking about how to achieve their goal administratively and about the possible feedback, or backslash. Long winding talking back and forth, the bureaucrat monster, where one hand doesn't know what the other is doing, is predictable. Aka "Digital Wallet". Maybe again, another shot into the own foot. Instead of achieving the fixing of the local Tax revenue, they're opening a new long-lasting "construction" site, which might end up with a "peanut." revenue. I see the issue, until now, quite relaxed.

For the real wealthy, the Tax issue is not a real issue. But it's an issue for the middle-class wealthy and all below. The segments getting milked always and everywhere the most. Tripling the visa fee by offering a tax exemption, would be nothing else than a "deposit" in advance. The rule and the way it's executed can change anytime. Most of the wealthy people are smart. That's why not so many fall for this rip-off. Age is one valuable factor. But also there are other options. As you said, the privilege of the fast track and a Limo Service, the discounts at some fancy shops and golf courses aren't worth 450 USD a month. But it might attract "wannabe" elites, or people who don't care too much about their money, and the math, which tells differently. Not too many there of those. Within two decades. Fiddling with ridiculous details on a more or less dead subject will not revive it.

No, I don't. But I remember many of the not "worth the money" ones. This can happen in all price categories. 2000/night is no guarantee for anything. Even though the better it gets, the higher the price tag is. But it's secondary. In TiT anyway. The number of staff surrounding me (playing cellphone or not), offered wais is not as important to me, as a worn out matres for, example. Primary, it depends on your own expectations and demands for the money you pay.

Maybe you'd check out the 1500 Baht rooms. Before you talk! Your "doubts" about where or if you've been staying are more of a cognitive or healthcare issue. 😂

The only solution is more "Concrete-Mania"! More Hotels in demand. For the multi-millions of "Super-Rich-VIP-High-Class" tourists from anywhere, who are dying and pay any price to get only one of those precious luxury accommodations in TiT. 😂😂😂 What goes around (stupidity), comes around. Sooner or later, but always.

Himmler was untouchable due to his power of the very high position in the hierarchy, and the direct shortcut to Hitler. Not due to knowing some dirt on other dirtbags. So, your "analogy", is not only far-fetched. It witnesses a pathetic political understanding and knowledge of history. By mingling the political situation of two different countries in different centuries and the situation of two individual character in those absolutely different systems. Both are not comparable at all. There are even not any analogies between "Big Joke", in the present TiT political system, and "Himmler", a war criminal in the autocratic Nazi Terror Regime. Stupidity or intention? Anyway. The typical reflex about "Trolls" doesn't make it better in both cases. Go back to school instead of "feeding" the "old, angry trolls" with lectures based on your biased semi-knowledge.

You like him or not. He's a chess player in TiT politics, who plays his long-time ahead planned strategies very well. Relentless, with a very long breath to achieve his targets! Quite underestimated, and for sure, not one of the clowns. Let's see, what happens.

"Analogy"? Lol. "Angry"? Lol. Naive, woke simple minds connect anything, with "Nazi", what's not woke, in their limited horizon. Parrots pretend to be smart. So, a simple question without circumventing about "UK", or "Henry VII": What is the "analogy" between "Big Joke" and "Himmler"?

I know who, and what "Himmler" was. So, why do you connect the atrocious German Nazi regime and this unbelievable creep with "Big Joke"? Deliberated, or just stupid implications?

I don't understand what "like Himmler" is supposed to say, but with the rest, you might be accurate. He was high in the ranks and in several center positions. So, he knows where the coins are rolling to.

Good approach. But, it makes only sense, when the economy is able to provide a sufficent number of jobs. The average low education level, by an ancient education system, the greed of employers, who often "prefer" illegal employees, in low level sectors, like constructions. Btw, where a crisis, let's say in an "optical" way is hard to recognize. To circumvent the already redicoulous low minimum wage. Just two collaborating issues to unemployment.

If they want to hand out cash money to welfare card holders, they'd name as a "social welfare" program. Not an "economy boosting" program. Can the administration afford the budget? That is the other issue. Obviously, it is too difficult to determine? Some recipients, maybe, would stash up the money, and some might "invest" it in Hong Thong, Cigarettes, cell phones, or anything. That's exactly, what would "boost" the economy in some way. But that is criticized! After months of long and winding discussions, at least they've realized their inability to establish the digital wallet system. Unfortunately the dream of the "control freaks", to launch the introduction step of a "Chinese-Master" styled social controlling system is torn. Fortunately (this time), by the often-seen incapability to plan ahead longer than one week.

Only in a very selective manner. If they're interpreting something personally as negative, they have a memory like an Elephant. That's why there is all this fuzz about a dead-born project (promise).

I don't get the fuzz about her. Especially Farangs should care about their own threshold. Concerning the ridiculous, incapable, and left-fascist "monkeys" they've elected into power in their home countries. Lol.

Why you're always talking about "our" Forum, "our" numbers etc.?

Wow, thank you! You're working overtime, for all the copy/paste work. And a a psychoanalyst either? As a "Jack of all trades", you must be on the TAT payroll?!

I didn't bash anyone, except you! You like to bash, at least, "Brits" for whatever reason. It's up to you. But this kind of stereotyped photo-documented post (not the first one) reveals your true face and mindset, camouflaged by long and winding pseudo-scientific, narrative-peddling mental diarrhea. Thank you, you're welcome!

Your description of the real situation in tourist areas, and the concerns of "common sense"- people during the China Virus lockdown aren't eliminating, what some clowns in the wrong position stated. The "smart" boosting of domestic tourism against all scientific advice, resulted, besides a very overseeable amount of THB (for whom"), in a higher contamination of (until then) less affected areas, inciting new lockdowns. Well done! Lol. Where are the posts of TAT? (You're cherry-picking "quotes" out of the (my) context. It's called "Gaslighting".) Again: TAT is the subject, not ANF or UK tourism. (You're "quoting" parts out of my context) Dito to you! Lol! Pulling out the baseball bat "Whataboutism" doesn't help much, from a certain point, and is mostly one of the last resorts, when running out of argumentative fuel. Quoting "BigStar": "I can't be a*sed to look up the old posts for you, but they're all there" Why should I? They're all there. Lol. At least, you're revealing where you're doing your research, and collecting the database for your scientific copy-and-paste analyses. You seem to conflate traffic conclusions with a bustling (tourism) economy, like many other people in TiT. "Round n' round in circles." Nobody is "impressed" anymore. "It's lost all its power to inspire awe owing to overuse, sorry" Correct! Bingo! But you'd change the recipient for your statement. Nobody questioned the entitlement of any aspiration. But if aspirations come down to the inflationary use of empty phrases, like "hub" (of anything?), agreement or disagreement becomes obsolete. Only the joke prevails.