07-13-2015, 02:53 AM
What is there on a group of islands in the mid Pacific to base a lucrative economy on?
It's a captive audience; all you have to do is wire yourself into the supply chain somewhere and take a little profit off the top (of everyone else's consumption).
begin developing an IT economy in Hawaii
Not happening: most companies still practice "management by walking around", and they won't open a field office (too expensive) to keep those workers in line. (Individual contributors who are capable of working unsupervised ... simply can't get the broadband to their home office anyway, so that's a non-starter.)
It's a captive audience; all you have to do is wire yourself into the supply chain somewhere and take a little profit off the top (of everyone else's consumption).
begin developing an IT economy in Hawaii
Not happening: most companies still practice "management by walking around", and they won't open a field office (too expensive) to keep those workers in line. (Individual contributors who are capable of working unsupervised ... simply can't get the broadband to their home office anyway, so that's a non-starter.)