Nothing embodies the attitude of capital to me more than what’s happening at Vail

There is no longer a sense that money is earned by providing value. It’s financial engineering and how can I degrade quality while charging the same price. 

Capital will squeeze both customers and labor as hard as they can. In this case, because the customers are rich, it’s turning into a whole thing now

What is going on at $MTN?  On the surface, this isn’t like a strike by millennial baristas.  These are highly skilled professionals who are extremely able skiers, trained in life saving emergency skills in difficult terrain and responsible for maintaining safe conditions and…

@DanielSLoeb1 Patrollers have a core of highly skilled career professional that lead them, and then there are many junior patrollers who are down fill who cycle in an out. Survival rates at mountains reflect this and are not shared publicly. The difference between getting someone critically…

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Nothing embodies the attitude of capital to me more than what’s happening at Vail

There is no longer a sense that money is earned by providing value. It’s financial engineering and how can I degrade quality while charging the same price. 

Capital will squeeze both customers and labor as hard as they can. In this case, because the customers are rich, it’s turning into a whole thing now 

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Just seems like a really poor PR choice… to be a fly on the wall to those conversations if who thought this was the right line to draw in the sand.

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I think it’s even more acute considering the incomes of most of the folks skiing…

Yet I don’t know economics of mountains.

East coast has had some pretty rough seasons overall.

And would assume vail has some decent debt that needs extra $ with increase in interest rates.

For real. A $2 raise to come to parity with other resorts. It’s hardly extortionate ask