The visa regulation is getting stricter. Thailand is really showing that they do not want people staying here without doing nothing. Off course this will hit them for sure they rid off all the riff raff but in the same time people that want to live here will think twice before they settle down in Thailand. If you buy an apartment you want to stay in that apartment without thinking of the visa regulations all the time. You can not get a retire visa before +55 but there is plenty of younger people that have retirement from their countries. Many soldieries have pension from the time they leave the army. Thailand will not loose anything taking this people in since they have a letter of guarantee from the Government in there own countries. In the long run Thailand will just punish themselves out when people look for alternative places like Cambodia, China, Vietnam and Laos.
Not dirty money but there is plenty of US/UK navy staff that have a pension and no way get a visa since they not 55+
I think that is good for the thai nation. sometime dirty money do not help thailand for long term.