Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "How Vail Destroyed Skiing" video.

  1. The corporation isn't greedy. The people running it are. The way to fight a corporation is to not do business with them. That might mean paying a little extra, rather than just shopping for the cheapest prices on Amazon.
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  2.  @JusticeMcBridee  Every dollar the government spent on medicine and space technology was 2 dollars taken from people who otherwise might have done it, themselves, and in such a way as to make it sustainable and pay for itself.
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  3. 8 people. 1 refrigerator.
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  4. I wonder how Crested Butte is doing. I lived down in Gunnison for several years, and CB was something else.
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  5. You can't cry about prices going up in the same breath in which you celebrate ski patrol getting a long-overdue pay raise. Ski resorts have always had an abundance of cheap labor, because they offered free access to the slopes to their employees. There's no shortage of 18-year-olds who love skiing enough to take a gig like that at a great mountain resort. What do they care if all they've got is a cot and a squat? Give them a discount at the lodge for food and beverages. They've got plenty of places to go hang out. A whole bunch of tourist traps where they know the kid behind the counter by name. It probably seems like a dream job to some. I could see wasting a couple years on the mountain just for the joy of it. Pay a handful of the best and most experienced ski patrol to run the rescue operations... Anyway, there's a reason these ski resorts are boom-and-bust or pay-through-the-nose. It ain't cheap to run such a place.
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