TMT - Contested Case Hearing Status - Hilo

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Have you ever visited the quarry? It's massive, and by the piles of chipped stone there it's very easy to imagine a lot of commerce associated with the area.

Would you know how the workers were chosen for the mining operation? Did they volunteer? Were they employed for wages by the Ali'i? Or perhaps receive shares in the enterprise?

Or were they working under other circumstances? It's been suggested the work only occurred in the summer months, and the miners lived in the quarry the entire time due to the arduous journey up and down the mountain. They would have been away from their families, and the warmth of their homes near and along the coast for 3 or 4 months at a stretch. It may have been a significant hardship, don't you think? I find it difficult to imagine the common worker feeling a sense of glory and pride to pound out rocks all day for months on end, do you?

You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.