Micael Nussbaumer
Jul 28, 2017 · 1 min read

But that’s just a consequence of the world not being flat and symmetrical at all points right? If there’s a little hilltop on an otherwise flat world I’m sure people will flock there, even if just for that better panoramic view on what surrounds them. People will always go where they want to be or where they perceive they should be. Digital nomads contributions may not be ground breaking but, the fact that you’re literally increasing the money pool on wherever you are against the money pool where the money is coming from, makes them something not to dismiss as irrelevant (think company outsourcing services from the USA to Philipines, to the sum of $40k year, which is much less than many many businesses — this is a net positive of $40k for the local economy — money that didn’t even exist there in the first place — sometimes brought on by a single person). On the other hand it erodes the value of work on the outsourcing origin — think the workers that are still in the US for instance and can’t compete with such lower rates — further increasing the divide that you mention. So it’s a matter of where in the fence you’re when looking at the problem. In the wet dreams of a technologist and futurist the utopian future would be a nomad humanity, a tribe moving through geographies as needed and when needed, dancing to the drum beat of electronic networks.