08-12-2023, 04:34 AM
I'm sure each of "Hawaii connected" ultra rich will eventually belly up to the bar with some sort of financial help for Maui in due time.
One way Bezos could help all of Hawaii, while at the same time vastly improve his Hawaii customer base, would be to offer FREE SHIPPING TO HAWAII for say a year or two. That could be putting some real rubber to the road in terms of real help to a hell of a lot of people.
As for Oprah, well she is on the ground in the immediate doing something - albeit seemingly a small gesture at the moment, but she is doing something. And given her notoriety, sometimes people in crises need a familiar face that can lend an ear, smile and shed a tear and if that makes the victims feel better even for a short time, it's well worth it. At least she was not just tossing paper towels into a crowd and shuttling back off to the mainland.
And one way the people of Maui can help themselves even more is to make sure the outpouring of financial help does not get pissed away in scandalous greed and corruption by a few select as we see time and time again in these ultra disaster moments that allows Maui to come back stronger than ever - for the locals - the tourists - and even Oprah and Jeff.
One way Bezos could help all of Hawaii, while at the same time vastly improve his Hawaii customer base, would be to offer FREE SHIPPING TO HAWAII for say a year or two. That could be putting some real rubber to the road in terms of real help to a hell of a lot of people.
As for Oprah, well she is on the ground in the immediate doing something - albeit seemingly a small gesture at the moment, but she is doing something. And given her notoriety, sometimes people in crises need a familiar face that can lend an ear, smile and shed a tear and if that makes the victims feel better even for a short time, it's well worth it. At least she was not just tossing paper towels into a crowd and shuttling back off to the mainland.
And one way the people of Maui can help themselves even more is to make sure the outpouring of financial help does not get pissed away in scandalous greed and corruption by a few select as we see time and time again in these ultra disaster moments that allows Maui to come back stronger than ever - for the locals - the tourists - and even Oprah and Jeff.
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