"lots that used to sell for $8,000 now sell for $18,000"

Returning Salvadorenos and some foreigners are buying up the best property. Without the overhang of violence, the prices of volcano vistas, tropical breezes and no-red tape jurisdiction is free to rise to its market rate.

At first I thought, how terrible all the wealthy foreigners buying the best views, locations for themselves and the locals are once again sentenced to live in the shadows earning pittance for hourly wage. They have No hope of owning the properties they clean and maintain.

The power of Bitcoin to emancipate the little guy from wage slavery is captured in the portfolios of the wealthy.

Then I thought, who is selling to the wealthy foreigners? Is it not the Salvadorans? Why didn't they sell to their poor neighbors?

Why do the current owners perpetuate this "injustice"? Why do they not take it upon themselves to give to their local brethren.

There must not be a morality around buying/selling property. If I don't buy something, someone else will who may be worse for the locals. The going rate is the going rate. To refuse to buy property somewhere just to keep the market for the "locals" is stupid I've finally concluded.

If some of the new elite are foreign bitcoiners, the locals may be lucky. No Bitcoiner is going to force them to take medication they don't want, or control their freedom or encourage them to addictions and poor health.

Charity and free markets must not mix somehow.

My family has always served the wealthy and we are happy in that role. We know how to take care of their stuff and to also take care of our own small property. I do not want to switch places with them either with all their problems.

Perhaps "owning" is a responsibility only for those who have earned it. And in this new world, at least some of those new owners are bitcoiners.