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Someone needs to define every "dead end corporate" job there is on this island.
Is it just the fast-food industry?
Is it also the people who work at laundromats/drycleaners?
The cashiers at Wal Mart, Target, Safeway etc.?
Bank tellers?
Car wash attendants?
The smiling guys and girls at every construction site holding the slow or stop sign?
Is the franchise owner of the local Pahoa Burger King a lesser person vs the local owner of Luquins?
Once we can define all low-end corporate jobs, then we can find people to fill them. Or decide what life would be without them.
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(08-02-2023, 07:19 AM)HiloJulie Wrote: Someone needs to define every "dead end corporate" job there is on this island.
Is it just the fast-food industry?
Is it also the people who work at laundromats/drycleaners?
The cashiers at Wal Mart, Target, Safeway etc.?
Bank tellers?
Car wash attendants?
The smiling guys and girls at every construction site holding the slow or stop sign?
Is the franchise owner of the local Pahoa Burger King a lesser person vs the local owner of Luquins?
Once we can define all low-end corporate jobs, then we can find people to fill them. Or decide what life would be without them.
I think you just volunteered! Get back to us with the results of your research, sweetie.
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"Is the franchise owner of the local Pahoa Burger King a lesser person vs the local owner of Luquins?"
Expanding on this question- let's envision a locally owned business, advocātus diabolī style. It's been in the family a few generations, they pay competitive wages and pay taxes, but otherwise their generational wealth doesn't generally trickle out into the local community in any significant way. Maybe they vacation a lot in Vegas to visit family and spread the wealth in Nevada too because they own an investment property or two there.
Now let's envision somebody working locally at a "dead end" corporate job. I'm not sure what dead end means, maybe that their kids aren't going to inherit a silver spoon business their grandparents started? Anyways, like most corporate zombies this person counts down the days until retirement investing in their 401k and likes to relax after work reading Punaweb and shops locally whenever they can. Maybe they don't know that their 401k is invested in funds that own stock in 15 corporations that have a foothold in Hawaii. Indeed, they are unaware that they directly or indirectly own fractional shares in several business they are trying to avoid because they "aren't local". How are they not local when they themselves own a tiny stake in them? The corporates pay local wages and taxes too.
There is a general conception that buying local is always better. Why? Does all the money stay in Hawaii? Probably not. The locals are shopping at the same corporates everybody else does. The local businesses aren't growing the corporate zombie's 401k, the carpetbaggers are. Maybe the local business even has a reputation for taking advantage of people or telling them it would be illegal for them to return their car unless they buy tires from them first.
All that aside, I do patronize local businesses as much as possible, but like most people I wasn't born into generational wealth so I'm financially limited in how much I can do. I try to focus as much as possible on buying directly from individuals or families we know. Maybe they don't have any employees or pay taxes and really don't contribute to the local economy in any significant way, but we know them, and their products are worth paying a little extra for, and we know that somewhere down the line they will probably be buying something from us.
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08-02-2023, 07:53 PM
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(08-02-2023, 05:44 PM)AaronM Wrote: I think you just volunteered! Get back to us with the results of your research, sweetie.
Britannica defines sweetie as:
1. A) A person you love very much
1. B) Used to address someone you love
2. A kind or helpful person, someone who is very nice
3. A candy
I don’t know what to think about your apparent obsession and declaration of your love of me, but I assure you that I am way too much woman for some high school dropout!
https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/sweetie
Well said and well reasoned Terracore!
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(08-02-2023, 07:53 PM)HiloJulie Wrote: (08-02-2023, 05:44 PM)AaronM Wrote: I think you just volunteered! Get back to us with the results of your research, sweetie.
Britannica defines sweetie as:
1. A) A person you love very much
1. B) Used to address someone you love
2. A kind or helpful person, someone who is very nice
3. A candy
I don’t know what to think about your apparent obsession and declaration of your love of me, but I assure you that I am way too much woman for some high school dropout!
https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/sweetie
Well said and well reasoned Terracore!
Okay, honey.
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AaronM Wrote:
Okay, honey.
Again you display this seemingly obsessive expression of thinking you’re in love with me.
A feeling I am sure you have tried with many women and never reciprocated once!
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Today's Paper
"HCC program aims to put residents in ‘high-demand, good-paying jobs’"
More than 80 Hawaii County residents have taken advantage of a new workforce development program being offered at Hawaii Community College.
"The Good Jobs Hawaii initiative, a statewide University of Hawaii program launched at the beginning of the year, offers free job training courses that provide skills and industry credentials for in-demand professions throughout the state.
“We have four key sectors that we’re focusing on,” said Dan Doerger, director of workforce innovation at UH Community Colleges, citing health care, technology, clean energy and creative industries."
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