Unfortunately, many people with Native ancestry here are “land rich, money poor,” which is what speculators are banking on. Fortunately a lot of them are on the more north side of the island, which didn’t burn. But it’s bad, and Maui was rapidly turning into Oahu even before the fire.
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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Disaster capitalists? You know what, nevermind.
Why nevermind? It's a very real thing, Naomi Klein wrote a fantastic book on the subject. I'd recommend it
Why not just "capitalists"?
Capitalist on its own isn’t enough of a dirty word to most Americans.
Yet.
carpet baggers is what I call these scum.