• Steve Dice@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    Most of those places were doing just fine before becoming tourist destinations. This “economy” you speak of is just the profit margins of hotel chains. It very seldom benefits the people living there.

    No, no suelte’ la bandera ni olvide’ el lelolai, que no quiero que hagan contigo lo que le pasó a Hawái

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      But now that they’ve let it into their economy, it has grown like a parasite the type of which cannot be removed without also killing the host.