But the shareholders (tourists?)

I had no idea people lived in Petra. I thought it was just a ruin

TIL the "discovery" of Petra was just western Europeans hearing about it again after the Romans, western and eastern, were building fucking churches in it and that we're at whatever stage of capitalism it is that gentrifies fucking Petra.

As someone who grew up in Dust Bowl country, if the indigenous people in the region stayed nomadic for umpteen thousand years, there's a couple few fukken reasons for it.

Government: "we must protect the remains of this dead culture"

The culture, literally still there, trying to avoid getting killed by the government: "thefuck?"

Same.same.with Angkor