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Old Mar 27, 2020, 4:44 pm
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Marriott averaged ~$1.5B in net income each of the last three years. Not a bad run. If they wanted to subsidize some of those franchised hotel owners a bit (even the terrible ones that make all their employees at dozens of their hotels come in every day, even with single digit occupancy, and counter social distancing best practices) in the name of the public good, they could.

Other companies are turning their regular production lines into making sanitizer, masks, ventilators, etc. Marriott is the so-called biggest hotel company in the world - how are they chipping in?
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