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It's become a philosophical kind of question, eh? What is Hawaii, what should Hawaii be in the future. One vision is that it stays the way it is forever, becomi
by morkalork 3y ago
It's become a philosophical kind of question, eh? What is Hawaii, what should Hawaii be in the future. One vision is that it stays the way it is forever, becoming a "nature preserve" of a human settlement. Another vision which I suspect they're trying to avoid is "a limited resource monopolized entirely by the rich". The 2nd vision may well have happened over a longer time scale as families slowly get priced out and sell their land one by one. People would've noticed and grumbled about it, but it would've happened organically. Now with a big disaster, there's the potential it could happen suddenly all at once and that is unpalatable. So what's the problem, the process or the end result?
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- pixl97 3y agoThe particular problem with the rich is they tend to like high land values, it allows them to sell their purchases for profit and keeps those they view as undesirable out But this comes with catch-22 for said rich people. They don't want to pay the poor working class they employ so they can't actually afford to live at these places and all forms of service suffer. You see this in the big expensive cities that the government and civil workers have typically have long commutes to cheaper places as their salaries are typically capped. This becomes very problematic on islands where the the amount of habitable land is low and the demand high.