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"ripping out the soul along the way" Sad. Equally sad is: that's also happening in cities that are enjoying The Best of Times. A lot of the people doing the ac
by 8bitsrule 9y ago
"ripping out the soul along the way"
Sad. Equally sad is: that's also happening in cities that are enjoying The Best of Times. A lot of the people doing the actual work can't afford to live in them ... even if their neighborhoods weren't being gentrified into sterility.
Property investors want a high return on their rentals. But no spreadsheets can calculate the hidden cost of that return. When there's nothing left for greed to monetize, the day of reckoning will arrive.
It'll probably look like 'I Am Legend'.
- bilbo0s 9y agoIn all fairness, the people leaving these cities are typically not the same people who give the cities their "soul". Anyone who has been to Detroit would be hard pressed to say that the city does not have "soul". It has "soul" and "character" in abundance. None of that ever left. But you know what? Cool kids with "soul" typically don't bring in a whole lot of money. Add to that the fact that a lot of their "soul" is coming from a place of some very real pain, and you can see the potential for issues. So, yes, cities want to keep their "soul", and that's fine. (That's actually a GOOD thing.) But let's look at it face on, and not romanticize what that "soul" is too much. "Soul" makes cities what they are. No question. But it can have a dark side too. Just as the gleaming tech economy startups have a dark side that we shouldn't be romanticizing too much.