If we're trying to oppose all gentrification, we'd also have to - stop all jobs growth in Manhattan (10min subway ride to LIC) - and/or we'd have to put a cap

If we're trying to oppose all gentrification, we'd also have to - stop all jobs growth in Manhattan (10min subway ride to LIC) - and/or we'd have to put a cap on salaries (what happens to doctors? minimum wage? how do they pay med school loans?) - and/or ensure LIC residents dont commute to well-paying jobs in Manhattan - and/or ensure only low paying jobs are created in LIC (how many mechanics jobs and other non corporate jobs can LIC support? Why havent they already been created?) All of the above seem silly. At some point, you'd almost be breaking off LIC into a self-sufficient fiefdom in itself. The assumption would be that all the benefits that came from banding together as a city and creating a modern society were net negative to the residents of LIC. This seems quaint but doesn't feel right to me.