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by nmitchko 1612 days ago
This sheds a light on some bad practices around all ski areas:

* J1 / E5 visa abuse to skirt labor and wage laws and get cheap investments

* Overselling / abusive terms of carriage for lifts

* Overpricing basic food and services, assigning abusive police-style regulators on slopes (looking at you vail)

So at the end of the day, we have to take a look and think: should lifting skiers up a mountain on a chairlift really be worth billions of dollars in market cap? Should mountains, who are almost 90% public land (in the USA), even be businesses?