Pre-colonization, we Hawaiians worked 3-4 hours per day, and all resources (food, medicine, housing) were distributed according to need through the ahupua'a system. Zero hoarding (capitalism) was allowed by ali'i (leaders), and mass worker exodus as retaliation prevented it.

Hui were 1800's worker-coops where Hawaiians and other migrants from Asia worked together against white racialized-capitalist plantation owners. Many Asia-Pacific relatives also share the word 'hui'. 'La-hui' - nation in Hawaiian. 'Hui' is a Maori word for gathering. 'Xiaokang She-hui' - 'moderate collective prosperity' in Mandarin. Collective farming in Vietnam is also described as a 'hui'.

Emma Kaleleonālani, fought for the world's first universal healthcare system in 1859, in Hawaii. No Western country would attempt socialized medicine for a century. This system was arguably, 'luau but for medicine'. The US decimated our free healthcare for selfish profit. Today US workers are wealth-stripped by private healthcare.