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What rational person would purchase a home in a neighborhood in which they felt fucking terrified?

• glup 11y ago
  A person with limited resources and no better options. Low SES people are just as rational as high-SES people, but the choices are limited.
• minimax 11y ago
  The answer is a black person living in Atlanta in 1960. The American south of the 1960s was a place where cultural and institutionalized racism was alive and kicking. You should think about what a "rational" choice looks like under a system that is literally built to discriminate against and undermine an entire race of people.
  • H0n3sty 11y ago
    Were they better off in these homes which they choose to move to, or do you think they were better off where they came from? Discrimination is terrible but I don't see how it would have forced them to move next door to someone who oppressed them. I would find it more probable that they moved as an act of defiance than out of fear. In any case, I think we have to assume that the vast majority of people (including these people) who move from one area to another do so because it is in their own self-interest and that they're better off for having done so. When someone moves, it's as if they're voting with their feet in favor of their new location. I don't have any idea how bad their previous locations were, but on the whole this community was preferable.