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But this is still a pretty trifling connection. People voted for segregation so that 52 years into the future, lower income upper class people could live in che
by yummyfajitas 11y ago
But this is still a pretty trifling connection. People voted for segregation so that 52 years into the future, lower income upper class people could live in cheap mixed race neighborhoods? That's really also not something that was very predictable.
None of that is true of well-off white people taking advantage of a market inefficiency caused by decades of segregation....and an incentive along the same vector
Segregation was a "you must discriminate" law to prevent greedy folks like the author of this article from exploiting the market inefficiencies.
It seems like I've got 3 choices here.
(+1) Violate the spirit of that law, reduce the market inefficiency, and make money. 0) Live in Asia. (-1) Make the inefficiency worse by moving into a nice white suburb, pay more money, and obey the spirit of that now absent law.
To me it seems like "guilt follows benefit" implies I need to do (-1).
- tptacek 11y agoI think you're the only one in this thread suggesting that well-off white people simply shouldn't move into these neighborhoods, man.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoPeople should choose the best of all available options and still feel guilty about it? Not really sure what you are advocating for here.
- tptacek 11y agoNone of this is responsive to what I just wrote.