Deserted streets where vendors and customers once liven them.
It isn’t my place to comment on Thai government policies. But I have to as I have seen this in my own country.
This occurrence has many names to it:
– progress
– ridding the public of nuisance
– etc.
These problems follow thereafter:
– price inflation because vendors compete for sanctioned rental spaces
– otherwise independent citizens are displaced, throwing them into the schooling and jobs market
– the lifeline of entrepreneurship gets killed off. (Potential growth in any one of these small timers could lead to future employment of locals by local business
Again, where have I seen this before
?Claimants to the public space:
– public: difficulty walking
– residents: noise pollution
– vendors: just making a humble living
– owners of brick and mortar shops: take away business
– government: need progress beyond uncivilized social economic organisations.
These are easily replicable everywhere. Imagine this happening in Taiwan.
Call it:
– history repeats itself
– because people in power think they know better
Effect:
– proper stores are now emptier than
