Or maybe there are just more high-income people than there used to be? More people in the upper ranges of the middle class? The author cites rising hotel prices, but there are the same number of hotel beds. Meaning just as many people are staying, they're just paying more to do it.
all examples of price increases in that article, I could easily apply to my groceries, clothes, marketplace health insurance, restaurants, pet care costs and just about everything I buy everyday (surprisingly price of gasoline has been somewhat of an exception). In 2021 while i was consulting my monthly health insurance via NYS marketplace was $405/mo, the one I just got was $629/mo
So yeah... If what that article about "pricing out middle-class" is true, how about we increase its scope beyond Hawaii.
Let's just go ahead and say middle-class (and how about everyone who middle-class believes is below them) is priced out of life in general, including that Hawaii vacation.
This is a good thing. Social media has made visiting Hawaii a horrible experience for both the visitors and the locals. People are very misinformed, and even this article reeks of it. However, if it discourages people who get their information from social media to visit Hawaii, then I'm for it.
the labels have stayed, but they mean different things now, but with a new addition. "first class" means you are too poor to own a jet, and "flying private" is the new indicator for immeasurable wealth.
Listen closely and you will hear the bitter complaints of poor service and total debaucles formerly assosiated to "budget" travel, now bieng voiced by people paying an extra $3000 to fly "first" class.
now it's back of the jet for all of us "riding da bus", up front for the desperate to impress, and the money, only see's other money, somewhere else.
I don't understand the narrow field of view of this article when it fails to talk about Hawaii as a place that became unaffordable to its own people, after being colonized in literally the author's father's era.
"Too expensive for middle class tourists" - really? Shut up.
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[ 52.4 ms ] story [ 661 ms ] threadSo yeah... If what that article about "pricing out middle-class" is true, how about we increase its scope beyond Hawaii.
Let's just go ahead and say middle-class (and how about everyone who middle-class believes is below them) is priced out of life in general, including that Hawaii vacation.
so saddly, terribly, wrong.
the labels have stayed, but they mean different things now, but with a new addition. "first class" means you are too poor to own a jet, and "flying private" is the new indicator for immeasurable wealth. Listen closely and you will hear the bitter complaints of poor service and total debaucles formerly assosiated to "budget" travel, now bieng voiced by people paying an extra $3000 to fly "first" class. now it's back of the jet for all of us "riding da bus", up front for the desperate to impress, and the money, only see's other money, somewhere else.
"Too expensive for middle class tourists" - really? Shut up.