But STRs should be thus zoned like any other activity and the people who have vested their lives in these areas should have the opportunity to decide for themselves what kind of neighborhood they want to live in, instead of having these commercial activities foisted upon them by largely out-of-town capitalists who don't have to live next door to their activities.  

Using 10- 50 'touches' with a guy in his 60s- 90s might soon prove counter productive... just as calling a millennial to 'invest' in RE as a 'private investor,' or 'venture capitalist,' probably isn't going to pan- out!

I’m in the Joplin area and part of the Joplin REIA and the Capitalist Cartel groups.

Scandinavia and even modern China are great examples of countries which have elements of socialism but incorporate varying degrees of competition and capitalism - in fact one could argue modern China is more capitalistic than modern America is (at the very least in a dystopian sense).Then we must ask, does pure capitalism work?

During this Covid time, it's safe to assume that eight people of which six are unauthorized to occupy the premisses have been able to  assemble a nice little fortune collecting any social resource that was made available to them (unemployment money, stimulus checks, etc.) while the capitalist (me) spent last three semesters teaching 10 college classes each semester on Zoom from the same room my children are doing their own online classes.

It's complicated, has some risks, and is very counter intuitive in nature, especially for Americans (a socialist microcosm in a capitalist country.)  

Treat it like a business, and a capitalist business at that.

If want to do a real deep dive on Intl Real Estate and Visas you should check out a youtube channel called Nomad Capitalist.   

Since I became successful people now accuse me of being a greedy capitalist while I pay far higher taxes than they do.  

As a Seattleite who owns rentals in Tacoma - it would be a shame to have what happened up here happen down there - from a cultural and capitalist point of view.