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> Why are the current residents obligated to accept that change? They're not. They just need to admit they want to turn their city into a giant gated community
by ng12 4y ago
> Why are the current residents obligated to accept that change?
They're not. They just need to admit they want to turn their city into a giant gated community and have-nots be dammed. Then we can have an open and earnest dialogue about it.
Of course, the greatest irony is that many of these cities are heavily progressive so they won't acknowledge the hypocrisy. Instead they'll hide behind environmental regulations or "won't somebody think of the children" or some other nonsense.
As a funny anecdote: I've noticed that in the suburbs of my city the incidence of BLM and "In this house we believe..." signs increases with the socioeconomic exclusivity of the town. Seems that progressive ideals are great as long as you don't have to inconvenience yourself in the slightest to achieve them.
- anamax 4y ago> They just need to admit Why do they "need" to do anything? > they won't acknowledge the hypocrisy While I'm perfectly happy to criticize "progressive communities", there's nothing hypocritical about not wanting to live in a London with 25M people.
- ng12 4y ago> While I'm perfectly happy to criticize "progressive communities", there's nothing hypocritical about not wanting to live in a London with 25M people. Yes, there is. If you live in London now it's probably because you or someone in your family benefited from a system that now excludes anyone not already in it. We ditched the landed gentry a few hundred years ago, I'm not super excited about bringing them back.
- anamax 4y agoWanting to be landed gentry is not hypocrisy. ("want to be landed gentry" is your interpretation, but I'll stipulate it for the purposes of this response.) Note that a significant fraction, probably even a majority, of the 10M prospective Londoners would much rather live in today's "only 14M London" than the "25M London" that you think should happen. Are these prospective Londoners wanna-be landed gentry hypocrites?