Switzerland Is Counting The Wrong Foreigners

What happens when an entire country is certain something is disappearing but is wrong about who took it? In this solo episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli returns to Gstaad, the Swiss village where her grandparents lived and where she watched the butcher shop, the bakery, and the dining room at the Olden close one by one. After Swiss voters rejected an initiative to cap the country's population, Diana names who is actually reshaping towns like Gstaad: the oligarchs and billionaires who buy the hotel, close the farmer's entrance, and vanish behind an underground door, while the Polish worker on the train and the Romanian nurse in the hospital take the blame. She validates what Swiss voters are feeling. Crowded trains, scarce housing, full hospitals: the strain is real. Using Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play The Visit as her frame, Diana shows you how to tell the difference between participation and possession, between people who show up to work and money that never has to explain itself. If you've ever watched the place you grew up vanish and couldn't quite name what took it, this episode was made for you. Chapters (00:00:04) - Switzerland is counting the wrong foreigners(00:05:45) - The role of migration in Swiss wealth(00:07:00) - How to Manage Your Wealth