I live in Hawaii and recently heard my large, Hawaii-based employer use the term “cost of labor” when explaining how they derived the organization’s new salary ranges. It’s no surprise that jobs and companies in Hawaii generally pay less than equivalent jobs/companies on the mainland. But when I asked my employer on an all-company call to explain what cost of labor actually is and why Hawaii employers can pay so much less than companies on the mainland, the answer the consultant provided was largely a non-answer.
Can someone explain to me like I’m 5, why is Hawaii’s cost of labor so low compared to the mainland?
(Edit: for clarification, cost of living and cost of labor are different terms, and I’m wondering why the cost of labor in Hawaii Is so disproportionate to the cost of living compared to parts of the mainland that also have high costs of living, such as much of California, NYC, Washington, and so on. The disparity between these two terms seems much more significant in Hawaii)
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To oppress the indigenous/local land bound (surfs, “renters”, “wage slaves”, ect.) as a way to keep them from becoming too wealthy and making sure all those rich owners of capital on the main land maintain the status quo and keep it cheap enough so even the (upper) middle class can still afford to visit and stay at the ridiculously wealth people’s winter homes, “hotels”, there is even different levels of class grouped by room type there if you’ve had the benefit of staying at one. They even have a global concierge service called the “gold keys”. Many things may have changed since the dark ages, but some are still the same.
Tl;dr “cost of labor” is the amount they pay the lower classes to maintain the status quo, feeding you just enough so your hungry enough to keep coming back for more.
George Carlin – “Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations that’ve long since bought and paid for, the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pocket, and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and the information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else. But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them.”
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