Return on Intention

It’s no surprise to most people that Santa Fe, New Mexico is one the USA’s largest art markets. If you look at the list of top 10 sources of revenue for New Mexico you’ll find that it’s all related to tourism. Santa Fe is the art capitol of our state, well…. actually, it is the capitol of the state….but the Albuquerque / Rio Rancho area is the largest metro in New Mexico, and where the airport is. I guess it was just a matter of time before someone tried to shift some of that art market to Albuquerque. The New Mexico Business Weekly reports about this.

My question has always been is it healthy to have almost all of your states (countries, companies, organizations) money come from one source? I wouldn’t think so, but with the line extension trap, maybe it’s not a bad thing after all. There is a case to be made for doing one thing very well and become the leading source for it, but I think for a society of people (in a state or company) to really flourish culturally, emotionally and hopefully economically we require diversity. We can’t all be artists…… can we?

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