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Re:Seeing like a state, progress and poverty, and owning land by motohagiography on Friday August 19, 2022 @09:39PM (#32528212)
This criticism of gentrification ignores the sellers who are glad to take the money for what they invested, and the reason the industry moved to that area in the first place was to get access to the people who were there. The landowners are the community, provided that they are present and managing their investment. This is a fundamental cognitive divide as well, as the positions aren't reconcilable because it's a chicken/egg problem. One is as good a metaphor for either as the other.

I may even have a proof that people mostly migrate to where they can find stability, and away from where there is uncertainty and volatility. Long term residents are the stability.

When there is an imbalance between the sides, it needs correction, and advocating for the people who actually build these desirable streets and neighbourhoods that are so attractive for others to come to seems like the braver cause these days.

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Re:Seeing like a state, progress and poverty, and owning land by jjoonathan on Friday August 19, 2022 @09:47PM (#32528254)
> The landowners are the community, provided that they are present and managing their investment

That's a big, gigantic, huge, gnarly, completely unjustified assumption that is responsible in entirety for your conclusion. It's like saying "provided these people did good, they did good." Well, yeah. Duh. What if they didn't?

> This is a fundamental cognitive divide

Oh, I agree. It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary (or should I say rent / land value) depends on not understanding it.

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Re:Seeing like a state, progress and poverty, and owning land by nine_k on Saturday August 20, 2022 @12:08AM (#32528977)
> The landowners are the community

In cities with multi-tenant buildings it's typically not so. Renters are the community, or a large part thereof.

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