[luau] our economy

[Stan Baptista]

re: So, if you are a tech person, your future here
will most likely depend on supporting an activity that
is best done here. Tourism, the military, state and
local government, home repairs for movie stars  living
on Maui.

Interesting.  That pretty much eliminates hi-tech
commercial software development.  Perhaps I read more
than I should have into Don's comments but that's the
area I thought he was talking about promoting.

--- Gary Dunn <knowtree at aloha.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, R. Scott Belford wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 20 February 2003 08:32 pm, Stan
> Baptista wrote:
> > >
> > > So how does Hawaii expect to attract and keep
> high
> > > quality technical talent and businesses when
> they can
> > > do so much better elsewhere?  Frankly, I have
> yet to
> > > hear any answer other than "lucky live Hawaii"
> when I
> > > inquire about the salary situation.  Well, I
> > > guess...maybe, but it's not a very satisfactory
> > > answer.  
> > 
> > begin rant
> > I have come to hate this phrase.  This and the
> "price of paradise."  They 
> > seem to excuse every market inefficiency and
> economic incongruity we have.  
> > They distort basic laws of economics by enabling
> one to justify non-market 
> > rates simply because of our location.  They create
> an economic myth that is 
> > simply not true.  I find that greed, the fact that
> we border on being an 
> > isolated second world government, and unchecked
> corruption are the true 
> > contributors to our staggering economic
> discrepancies.  A simple solution is 
> > not so easily stated.
> > end rant
> 
> Last Tuesday a group informally calling ourselves
> the Cyberzone launched a
> new effort to address this issue. The new forum is
> called Futurezone. We
> meet at Shriner's Hospital on the third Tuesday of
> every month (sorry
> about that, HOSEF!). This week's panel discussion
> was about opportunities
> for Hawaii businessmen in China. There were more
> questions than answers,
> more frustration than satisfaction, but three things
> emerged: 1) Doing
> business in Asia requires strong personal
> relationships, and this puts
> Hawaii at an advantage due to time zone coverage, 2)
> Although tourists
> from China will be rare, college-level training,
> especially in travel
> industry, is strong and growing, 3) with the
> Olympics in China in 2006
> (8?) there is already a lot of work in architecture
> and environmental
> engineering.
> 
> If you would like to get on the mailing list, send a
> request to Marty
> Plotnick <martycri at lava.net>
> 
> A personal observation: Nothing is done in Hawaii
> that can be done
> somewhere else. So, if you are a tech person, your
> future here will most
> likely depend on supporting an activity that is best
> done here. Tourism,
> the military, state and local government, home
> repairs for movie stars
> living on Maui.
> 
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