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I find it ironic that at the time of writing the comment before yours is the one that complains about "simping for big business" (ie, overfocusing on the benifits to the wealthy) and then your comment is mainly lauding the benefits to the people who can afford international travel.

Community discussions are odd beasts.

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> the people who can afford international travel.

Who can't afford to travel 100km?

Maybe for you, international travel means hopping on a plane.

Most Europeans live closer to another country than to most of their own.

Turns out to be a surprisingly hard question to answer; so I'm going with such people will exist but I'm not sure how many there are. But regardless, that is a list of things that are either mainly to be enjoyed by people who are well off or (ironically and opposite) part of a program of enabling cheap labourers to migrate large distances.

And I'm not against either of those things, both are good. But it is funny how one comment is complaining about doing things that are good for business and the wealthy, then the next comment was celebrating the same.

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