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You are making contradictory criticisms. I could point out where the contradiction lies, but I think doing that may not be the best way, because it would be too
by im3w1l 6y ago
You are making contradictory criticisms. I could point out where the contradiction lies, but I think doing that may not be the best way, because it would be too superficial: You would just resolve the contradiction one way or the other and be on your way. I think if you looked for it yourself it would be a better exercise and may cause to wonder how and why it arose and expose underlying biases in your thought process. But if you are really stuck I will point it out. Or if you know what I'm thinking of, and think it's not a contradiction feel free say so then I guess.
- cambalache 6y ago" I think you are wrong, but I wont tell you why because otherwise you could refute me" There, your paragraph in fewer words.
- im3w1l 6y agoThe contradiction is in being against both self-segragation and gentrification.
- cambalache 6y agoDo you realize that those 2 are basically the same thing, right? High income people creating a cost barrier to low income people to live isolated from them. Nobody complains about gentrification because some hipsters moved to neighborhood, or even because they opened one of those atrocious coffee shops. The main complain is that the, intended or not, result is that low-income people, the people more at risk in the country are thus driven away from historical neighborhoods and pushed more and more to the margins (both literal and figurative) of society. BTW, some ironic thing I've noticed is that many people will retort with "Well, that's how the economy works, supply and demand and all of that, besides, the original owners of the properties will make bank", but when the same dynamics is done to them by rich foreigners buying houses in western cities and driving the prices to the sky they scream murder.