Condo'd

We're in our condo now - we spent three nights with our friends in Bucerias, about 15k north of PV, and now we're more or less adjacent to PV proper, nearish the airport. Which doesn't sound that great, but it is. We're on the top floor of an 8 story building looking out over a huge and eerily empty beach. There is a smallish but lovely and most importantly pretty much deserted pool, which is all we need.

I went out running this morning, which is much more pleasant here than in Bucerias because the streets and sidewalks are all in Canada-level condition. Whereas in Bucerias the sidewalks are frequently in a state of disrepair that would invite endless lawsuits back home.

Similarly, on the way here, we passed through some nearly African slum looking housing that got steadily less prominent as we got closer to the beach.

This is something I always wonder about.

I suspect my soon-to-be-future-co-father-in-law would say: "we" have a relatively well run economic / government system and if we haven't actually earned such better living conditions, we certainly don't need to feel bad about them. "They" have mostly corrupt and chaotic economic / government, and if it weren't for that, they could enjoy the same same things we do.

On the other hand, I suspect my progressive sister would say: "we" have screwed over other countries in various ways and our better situation is more or less directly at their expense.

The truth is obviously between those extremes.

"We" obviously consume vastly more resources than "they" do. The extent to which resources are finite is debatable. The Economist would, in effect, say that they are infinite; we simply have to structure incentives properly to continue unlocking more human ingenuity to unlock more of them.

It seems pretty delusional, TBH!