many people used to come here for a year long vacation and never work or if they did work it would be something digital that doesn't involve the Thai country and is in no way impacting their work-force. These people were normally pretty "high-rollers" too staying at houses or villas that are thousands of dollars a month. These type of people are being forced out as well.
I don't really know what they are going for with this, but the Thai government just like any other government gets to do whatever they way. However, since Thailand's GDP is 20% based on tourism (this is a huge number) and the surrounding countries are growing in popularity, Thailand could end up regretting taking a hard-line approach to the expat community.
Yeah, who knows what some governments do and why they do it. I've given up. Probably something to do with in the name of protecting our citizens from x we're doing y.
Didn't realize Thailand economy was that focused or tied to tourism.