Yes! Community is an important concept that we are losing during mass media, globalization, secularization, Covid, etc. This is sad since our direct community was what we evolved to interact with, some 20-100 people near us. I am hoping for the day we can have large gatherings again so we can re establish communities.
This attitude is exactly what destroys communities while letting investors profit.
"Protecting" communities by excluding people means that the only people that get in are the wealthiest, and because exclusion is the baseline, every new wealthy person kicks out a less wealthy person.
The exclusion is an excuse to enforce austerity, the classic means of squeezing the less wealthy to the benefit of the more wealthy.
> "Protecting" communities by excluding people means that the only people that get in are the wealthiest,
But the manner in which the community is "protected" in this case is by excluding wealthy foreigners who swoop in and pay huge sums over asking, sight unseen, for properties. Not sure how that could be detrimental to someone who isn't wealthy.
