• titanicx@lemmy.zip
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    Yes, but you do realize that the people that live there work at those businesses. If tourism doesn’t exist in those areas, those jobs that they rely on wouldn’t exist. You don’t have to own a business to profit from it. In many of those areas, there isn’t any other real industry.

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      Yes, but you do realize that the people that live there work at those businesses. If tourism doesn’t exist in those areas, those jobs that they rely on wouldn’t exist.

      Trickle down economics on Lemmy, Christ.

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      only because tourism in these places crowds out all other industry, often on purpose

      gotta keep local labor cheep for profits

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        What industry happens in those areas? Would you prefer a factory, maybe an oil rig. Or how about a mine. Great alternatives …

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          you ever actually live in a ‘tourist’ town?

          name it

          Hawaii had a major IT project to be an international hub, thousands of jobs. This was early 2000s. State tourism lobby killed it.

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              the original post and the problems the first reply is talking about is very pertinent to Hawaii

              you asked for an example, this is a real directly illustrative one

              the argument was something along the lines of development harming visual appeal (while having 10 story+ apartments in Waikiki)

              but it was and always is about cheap local labor to exploit

              tourism does not help locals any more than trickle down economics helps the average citizen