Worrying signs for 2D generation
Categories:
Cultural,
Europe,
Government
Tags:
F generation,
taxation
Martin Craigs: "Human beings like meeting in three dimensions. Fine, we’re all fans of iPads and android devices and those cold dark screens. What worries me is the next generation, which I thought was aptly described by Tyler Brule this weekend as the F generation, the flat-lining generation, the ones that think everything’s monosyllabic, and on a cold dark screen. They need to get out more, smell the roses, meet people in three dimension because that’s what the travel and tourism is. You know, the best two weeks of nearly everyone's life is the two weeks they come and visit our industry, when they’re having the holiday that they’ve worked all year for. Why on earth do governments want to tax and harass that pleasure and mistake it for something like the negative effects of tobacco and alcohol, because in the minds of European politicians, we’re in that pigeonhole, alcohol, tobacco, tourism. It deserves to be taxed and harassed, it’s a pleasure. Well sorry guys, we’re not all living in some century old protestant work ethic mind set that everyone has to be driven to only work and taxed if they have any pleasure, that’s what one of PATA’s main points."