I live in a famous third world city and the same thing is happening here. Sometimes stores with more than 100 years close because some hedge fund buys the entir

I live in a famous third world city and the same thing is happening here. Sometimes stores with more than 100 years close because some hedge fund buys the entire street and, hoping to transform the place in a multi-million commercial condo for the ultra rich, raises the rent to impossible prices. E-commerce is a thing, but not as pervasive as in the US. The city culture is being put at risk simply by predatory capitalism