Rebuilding
America for long-term sustainability
They call it progress...redeveloping
urban poverty zones into toney hangouts...for white people
Opening tattoo parlors, and piercing salons for young, eLife,
college-grad baristas
Jacking up rents and hanging banners proclaiming the latest new arts
district
Weekend farmers markets with goods brought inside the huge
refrigerated trucks of corporate suppliers
Real
estate professionals buying up surrounding properties for pennies
as the influx jacks up property taxes
Following a proven plan, they non-violently oust the blacks, Koreans,
Indians and other native inhabitants
Then come the hip foreign and fusion restaurants staffed by
illegales...who of course live shabbily...elsewhere
A few change-the-world tech startups emerge, trumpeting their new and
cosmically-important apps
Bearded hipsters open trendy “Buy Local” shops hawking the latest
in Millennium trends...at exorbitant prices
And then come the doctors, lawyers, salesmen and entrepreneurs
bidding more than the property asking price
Aging GenXers
swooning for the aura of pricey, upscale, retro lofts created from
abandoned ghetto warehouses
It’s all and only about the food, drink, entertainment and snarky,
gentrified lifestyle atmosphere, Right?
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