They don’t really need to be high skilled if they are already employed. They’d be bringing money with them, so its basically an expansion on tourism. Opening opportunities for people to travel without having to disconnect from work. It’s specially useful to attract Americans who notoriously don’t get to take vacation leaves.

If I were a billionaire I would be investing hard into opening a series of farm hotels for remote workers all over the world, with some sort of membership system that allowed folks to stay in any of them without hassle. I would provide high speed internet, small office rooms and vast contact to nature, healthy food options, sightseeing deals and that sort of stuff, all of them at locations chosen to keep the city centers at arms length - avoiding the city noise but not going too far from it.

I’m sure this will eventually be a common business, not many years from now (though probably with lower standards than what I described).

When you look at all adaptation attempts out there, each one failed at something different and there’s no single thing that all of them got wrong. Eventually someone will get everything right. It might not be with One Piece, but it’ll happen sooner or later.

It seems like Netflix is doing all they can to make it the best live action adaptation ever, which is a breath of fresh air considering how little effort shueisha puts on the one piece anime.

From what I’ve seen so far it really feels like one piece, which is all I want. Even if they make changes to the story and fail at some things, if they can replicate the magic of watching one piece, I’ll be very happy with it.

I’m looking forward to watching it with some folks who don’t watch anime.