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My own for example. I do business online. Everything stopped for a year. Had to pay employees out of pocket because letting them go would mean their families go
by 2Gkashmiri 6y ago
My own for example. I do business online. Everything stopped for a year. Had to pay employees out of pocket because letting them go would mean their families go hungry. In all fairness, I could not do that so took a major hit.
Same for restaurants, hotels, travel agencies, everyone doing wfh, tourism, we have a bunch of software development businesses, like huge ones and they simply closed shop and moved hundreds of employees outside the valley. Anyone who couldnt do that, like ours suffered. Simple as that.
- ckdarby 6y ago> I do business online > Anyone who couldnt do that, like ours suffered. I'm curious, what business operates online but can't move? Is it a company with large manufacturing that can't pick up and move?
- selimthegrim 6y agoIf large manufacturing was in Kashmir there probably would be less of the problems there are now
- 2Gkashmiri 6y agoOh... we did have at one time, probably in 1930's the largest silk fsctory in the world. https://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/kashmir/after-30-years-solina-silk-factory-back-in-business/ https://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/kashmir/after-30-years-s... Sadly political mismanagement killed it. Other than that the valley is too little for huge industries geographically. We have dams built on either side of LOC but the governments take majority share of produce/revenue and locality is left with almost nothing so yeah
- 2Gkashmiri 6y agoFamily considerations. Financial constraints. You dont want to take a loan when your immediate future looks like zero income. Mh client base is in the valley itself so my moving wouldnt help as my customers wouldnt reach me anyways