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I know New Zealanders and Australians often like to brag that life is normal for them thanks to their country’s bold measures, but that is not the case: you sti
by Mediterraneo10 6y ago
I know New Zealanders and Australians often like to brag that life is normal for them thanks to their country’s bold measures, but that is not the case: you still cannot travel internationally, nor can you receive international guests or do business with international tourists. You, too, have to wait for things to go back to normal.
- worik 6y agoI hate international travel. International "guests" have been a mixed blessing. We used to get >1,000,000 tourists a year. The opportunity cost of tying up that many resources for a small country of 5,000,000 is huge. Mixed, yes. Part of the world we are, but I for one will not be unhappy if international travel becomes much harder. And please let's not go back to normal!! We are headed to catastrophe, we must change...
- dingaling 6y agoServing international travellers and taking their money in exchange is much easier than bootstrapping new economic activities for the 10% of the population who work in that sector. What economic opportunities do you foresee for them?
- worik 6y agoHeaps. We are very short of horticultural labour. With the use of modern machinery horticultural workers are getting very productive. It is hard to increase tourism workers productivity with technology.... We are very short of infrastructure workers, ditto. Even for unskilled jobs we have to import workers. There is a lot of work available, and no need for the low skill low productivity tourism jobs. It was wrecking our economy and the opportunity of the tourism collapse will be a boon across the board. The sad part is all the small operators that have built up on the margins. These businesses will collapse too, taking people's life savings and hard work. That is sad.