Dear HCN,
I very much enjoy your
excellent paper, even if quite a few of the articles sadden me as
they chronicle the transition of an honest working man’s West into
a characterless, la-de-da, recreational theme-park West. But “The
New West’s servant economy” truly shocks and depresses me (HCN,
4/17/95).
That these ski resorts, catering, one
presumes, to the 1 percent who control 40 percent of all the wealth
of this country, should scour the country for the cheapest possible
labor, and treat them like dirt, is an abomination. The greed,
arrogance, materialism and insensitivity of these useless places
are beyond any justification. The West would be a better place, and
we a better people, if these worthless and decadent ski resorts
disappeared without a
trace.
Dayton
Lummis
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Who needs ski resorts anyway?.
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