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minus-squarebaines@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 hours agoyou 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.
minus-squaretitanicx@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 hour agoMoving to Hawaii is far different then moving to say rural Arizona.
minus-squarebaines@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 hour agothe 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
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.
Moving to Hawaii is far different then moving to say rural Arizona.
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