> You don't really seem to get the idea of staying on topic whatsoever, do you?

First I responded with the fact that tourist visa require cash (a point, which you haven't invalidated), then you responded that you never talked of tourist visa – so: on what visa do people enter then, if they're not working (e.g. the digital nomads)?

> My comment was very clear: if you are willing to live a low-budget existence, then this type of randomized living is possible for most people worldwide, even those with crappy circumstances. All you need is a smile and a thumb to stick out.

Yes. However I fear that randomized travel through Africa might end up with you dead as an human sooner than later. (at least that's the outlook of a Nigerian acquaintance (priest though) who went by plane everywhere, "streets are not safe").

> €100 is absolutely excessive for Schengen health insurance

yeah. But you need that. At some point. So you need to have quite a bit of cash.

> I have indeed traveled and worked simultaneously in those regions - with no Russian skills; and no, I explicitly mentioned why refugees cannot usually get tourist visas.

well, I have been to Bulgaria and the experience of buying train tickets was "interesting" as well as trying to pay with cards... But probably Kamchatka is a lot more tourist friendly, who knows.
To the refugee tourist visa: why are there stricter requirements and can you provide a source for your claim? At least for all the "non-refugee-status-eligible"-people, getting a visa is certainly possible (and they include countries as Nigeria, Ivorycoast, Sambia, Ghana...) and should be very easy if your claims are true.

> Again, if you actually went outside and met any of these people, you would realize the ways in which many of them actually travel. Ever heard of a multi entry visa?

Uhm yes https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/eu-defines-rules-for-g...
so you've been to Schengen 3 times (at at least 40€ apiece) while _not working_ (remember, these are no digital nomads and their visa forbids work...) for no longer than 90 days, traveled back, worked in your home-country, made enough there to fill up your bank account (you'll have used a bit of money in Europe and I doubt you can survive on the move below 3€ a day – and that's quite a bit of money everywhere).
That's a very interesting biography for sure. There has to be some journalism or twitter-thread on that?

> Ultimately, the proof is out there, in the hordes of hyper budget travelers worldwide. Discussing whether or not they exist is pointless. If I'm standing in front of a tree, and you keep making confusingly worded arguments about how trees can't possibly exist, then we're not going to end up agreeing

Well, I've frequented hostels and flixbuses and eastern european trains alike. And nowhere, I've encountered hordes of (globally poor) Africans, Russians, Indians, South-Americans or South-East-Asians on their hyper-budget-travels. Maybe I was not budgety enough. Maybe these people don't do touristy things. I don't think they exist. What I know of are (a) relatively rich students from developing nations doing low budget travel on their convenient Schengen student visa and (b) definitely rich (in a global context) first-world-people doing low-budget-travels. It works, but a) you need cash (which in the west is easy to come by) and b) you need a visa, which is kind of interdependent, unless c) you get a visa to work, which is relatively rare.

I guess we are mostly misunderstanding each other, for an example: India.
I don't think that any of those "subsumed" at the 20% level here [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India#/media/File:I...] travel Europe (or India) on a hyper budget at all with modalities anyone here would consider "travel". I also highly doubt that anyone below the 20000 rupees mark (250€ monthly household income) can set this up, because frankly, 50€ for a visa, 50€ for a flight (more like 500 from India to Schengen, I don't know, how you hitchhike by land - through Pakistan and Iran...) are just not possible that easy. So this leaves the upper 12% [https://www.statista.com/statistics/653897/average-monthly-h...] for this endeavours, which are a large absolute number, but frankly just a very well off elite in India _and_ similar countries. Clearly, they are a lot "poorer" than any European or North-American, but the original statement "he/she'll be quite rich in his/her homecountry" stands unabated. And while Russians are richer, you won't go fart either with the at max. 600€ monthly per capita income, 75% of the country enjoy [https://www.statista.com/statistics/1017901/russia-populatio...].

So to bring an end to this discussion: I don't think there are ex subsistence-farmers from Africa/India or migrant laborers/non-college educated from China/Russia doing "hyper budget", random travels (your statement: "with crappy passports and nearly no money"). All the people doing this, have a quite comfortable financial and social cushion in their home-country. So doing this _is a privilege_, which people from the North American or European population centers can enjoy a lot easier, because they earn a lot more money ($PPP) than _a majority_ of the remaining population on this planet.

And lastly: with Corona going around, I really don't see a point of travelling, but generally I'm not too aversed to the idea. Maybe we should just talk in person.