The ability to work remotely with ease benefits affluent newcomers with access to devices that can be connected to mobile working platforms, allowing them to find and even create work for themselves through democratized online service / trade bartering systems. This also allows them to save expenses by living outside of the downtown core without the need for commute. Newcomers without access to such digital resources, however, are further driven out to find informal means for precarious work outside of the system, as well as being subjected to high living expenses in the downtown core.

Digital connectivity associated with all aspects of living has become a norm, and newcomers must subscribe to constant surveillance through data tracking that is inherent to the provision of any support services by the government. More so, automated quantitative evaluation now determines the services that newcomers are able to receive, thus concretizing gaps between rich and poor, even within the newcomer community, through automated analytics algorithms. Although blockchain technology makes it difficult to erase digital ledgers tied to newcomer activity and corresponding digital identities, a growing community of hackers have found ways to manipulate devices and data as means to exploit affluent newcomers for digital identity “upgrades” in order to access higher quality lifestyle services.