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How is the Seattle economy destroyed?
by whynotminot 8y ago
How is the Seattle economy destroyed?
- adventured 8y agoIt's not. Amazon is one of the best things that has ever happened to Seattle. The Seattle economy is by far one of the greatest results America has seen in the last 30 or 40 years among major cities. There are only a few cities in the US that compare when it comes to quality of life, standard of living, incomes, employment prospects, et al. When someone says it's destroyed, they mean it's gentrifried or exclusionary, not benefiting everyone equally. That's certainly true. Economically the fact is Seattle has been an epic boom city for two decades now. Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway also don't benefit everyone equally. 99.9% of the world can't live there, few of the planet's 7.5 billion people are welcome. It turns out that all nice, affluent places are aggressively exclusionary, without exception.
- tanilama 8y agoIt is not. Period. People just likes to fantasize about the past like it is a paradise.